Chapter XXVI: Exhortation to Seize Italy and to Free Her from the Barbarians

Chapter XXV: How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs, and in What Mode It May Be Opposed

Chapter XXIV: Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States

Chapter XXIII: In What Mode Flatterers Are to Be Avoided

Chapter XXII: Of Those Whom Princes Have as Secretaries

Chapter XXI: What a Prince Should Do to Be Held in Esteem

Chapter XX: Whether Fortresses and Many Other Things Which Are Made and Done by Princes Every Day Are Useful or Useless

Chapter XIX: Of Avoiding Contempt and Hatred

Chapter XVIII: In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes

Chapter XVII: Of Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary