The People's Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty

Prologue
Preface. Machiavelli’s Reconciling of Leadership and Democracy

Part 1. Salutary Tyranny in The Prince and Discourses
1. Agathocles as Princely Exemplum (Agathocles, Hiero, Cesare Borgia, Liverotto da Fermo, Nabis the Spartan)
2. Greek Tyrants and Roman Reformers (Cleomenes, Clearchus, the Gracchi, Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar)

Part 2. Civic Leadership in The Prince and Discourses
3. Severe and Prudent Civic Magistrates: The Consul, the Dictator, and the Gonfalonier “for Life” (Lucius Brutus, Furius Camillus, and Piero Soderini)
4. Rome’s Most Prudent Captain and Florence’s Unarmed Prophets: Envy, Exile, and Willingly Leaving Office (Camillus, Moses, Soderini, and Savonarola)
5. Civic Corruption, Capital Trials, and the Assembled People (Marcus Menenius and Piero Soderini)
6. Opening the People’s Eyes (at Least Partially): Civic versus Princely Leadership (Pacuvius Calanus and Cesare Borgia)

Part 3. Imprudent Leadership in the Florentine Histories
7. Faulty Foundings and Failed Reformers: The Civic Ills of Goodness, Patriotism, and Concord (Giano della Bella, Corso Donati, and Michele di Lando)
8. Failed Tyrants: Bad Men Who Know Not How to Appear Good (Appius Claudius, Walter Brienne, and Septimius Severus)

Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index