Machiavelli wrote his main work, The Prince, in 1513, but the work was only published in 1532. The book is divided into 26 chapters.
Initially, Machiavelli displays the types of existing principalities and points out the distinctions between each of them. Next, it explains how States are broken down into hereditary and acquired Republics and Principalities, as well as ecclesiastical lordships.
In the second part, the author explains the foundations of power by analyzing laws and weapons. and how governments should organize power.
Continuing, in the third part of the work, he will debate the standards of conduct that a Prince must embrace to rebuild Italy.
Over the course of five centuries, the best-known work of Nicolau Machiavelli (1469-1527) stopped being just a reading of political interest, but also became mandatory literature on the curriculum of historians, economists, sociologists, lawyers and executives. His observations on morality and ethics remain astonishingly timely.
