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The Prince - Early Modern Texts
The PrinceNiccol MachiavelliCopyright Jonathan Bennett 2017. All rights reserved[Brackets]enclose editorial explanations. Small dots enclose material that has been added, but can be read asthough it were part of the original text. Occasional bullets, and also indenting of passages that are not quotations,are meant as aids to grasping the structure of a sentence or a thought. Every four-point ellipsis .. indicates theomission of a brief passage that seems to present more difficulty than it is worth. Longer omissions are reportedbetween brackets in normal-sized type. The division into twenty-six chapters is Machiavelli s; the division intotwo Parts is not. Previous translations that have been continuously consulted are: translated and edited by Robert Martin Adams (Norton Critical Edition, 1977). Don t confuse this Adams ( ) with the now better-known Robert Merrihew Adams (b.)
fortuna: This word occurs nearly 60 times in the work. Most occurrences of it could be translated by ‘luck’, but for Machiavelli its meaning is clearly broader than that— something more like ‘circumstances beyond one’s control’. The interplay between this and virtù is …
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