Chapter 1: How Many Kinds of Principalities There Are, and By What Means They Are Acquired

Chapter 2: Concerning Hereditary Principalities

Chapter 3: Concerning Mixed Principalities

Chapter 4: Why the Kingdom of Darius, Conquered by Alexander, Did Not Rebel Against The Successors of Alexander at His Death

Chapter 5: Concerning The Way to Govern Cities or Principalities Which Lived Under Their Own Laws Before They Were Annexed

Chapter 6: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability

Chapter 7: Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired Either By The Arms of Others or By Good Fortune

Chapter 8: Concerning Those Who Have Obtained a Principality by Wickedness

Chapter 9: Concerning a Civil Principality

Chapter 10: Concerning The Way in Which The Strength of All Principalities Ought To Be Measured

Chapter 11: Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities

Chapter 12: How Many Kinds of Soldiery There Are, and Concerning Mercenaries

Chapter 13: Concerning Auxiliaries, Mixed Soldiery, and One's Own

Chapter 14: That Which Concerns a Prince on the Subject of The Art of War

Chapter 15: Concerning Things For Which Men, and Especially Princes, are Praised or Blamed

Chapter 16: Concerning Liberality and Meanness

Chapter 17: Concerning Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether it is Better to be Loved than Feared

Chapter 18: Concerning the Way in which Princes Should Keep Faith*

Chapter 19: That One Should Avoid Being Despised and Hated

Chapter 20: Are Fortresses, and Many Other Things to Which Princes Often Resort, Advantageous or Hurtful?

Chapter 21: How a Prince Should Conduct Himself so as to Gain Renown

Chapter 22: Concerning The Secretaries of Princes

Chapter 23: How Flatterers Should Be Avoided

Chapter 24: Why The Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States

Chapter 25: What Fortune Can Effect in Human Affairs and How to Withstand Her

Chapter 26: An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians