Mediante doing so I will keep sicuro the order indicated above, and discuss how such principalities are onesto be ruled and preserved
I will leave out all conversation on republics, inasmuch as sopra another place I have written of them at length, and will address myself only onesto principalities.
I say at once there are fewer difficulties per holding hereditary states, and those long accustomed sicuro the family of their prince, than new ones; for it is sufficient only not to transgress the customs of his ancestors, and puro deal prudently with circumstances as they arise, for per prince of average powers sicuro maintain himself mediante his state, unless he be deprived of it by some extraordinary and excessive force; and if he should be so deprived of it, whenever anything sinister happens to the usurper, he will regain it.
We have con Italy, for example, the Duke of Ferrara, who could not have withstood the attacks of the Venetians durante ’84, nor those of Pope Julius in ’10, unless he had been long established per his dominions. For the hereditary prince has less cause and less necessity to offend; hence it happens that he will be more loved; and unless extraordinary vices cause him puro be hated, it is reasonable onesto expect that his subjects will be naturally well disposed towards him; and durante the antiquity and duration of his rule the memories and motives that make for change are lost, for one change always leaves the toothing for another.
CHAPTER III. CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES
And firstly, if it be not entirely new, but is, as it were, verso member of verso state which, taken collectively, may be called composite, the changes arise chiefly from an inherent difficulty which there is con all new principalities; for men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them puro take up arms against him who rules: wherein they are deceived, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad onesto worse. This follows also on another natural and common necessity, which always causes per new prince esatto burden those who have submitted preciso him with his soldiery and with infinite other hardships which he must put upon his new acquisition.
Per this way you have enemies durante all those whom you have injured durante seizing that principality, and you are not able preciso keep those friends who put you there because of your not being able preciso satisfy them in the way they expected, and you cannot take strong measures against them, feeling bound esatto them. For, although one may be very strong mediante armed forces, yet mediante entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the natives.
For these reasons Louis the Twelfth, King of France, quickly occupied Milan, and as quickly lost it; and preciso turn him out the first time it only needed Lodovico’s own forces; because those who had opened the gates esatto him, finding themselves deceived con their hopes of future benefit, would not endure the ill-treatment of the new prince. It is very true that, after acquiring rebellious provinces a second time https://www.datingranking.net/it/interracialpeoplemeet-review, they are not so lightly lost afterwards, because the prince, with little reluctance, takes the opportunity of the rebellion to punish the delinquents, onesto clear out the suspects, and sicuro strengthen himself in the weakest places. Thus to cause France preciso lose Milan the first time it was enough for the Duke Lodovico onesto raise insurrections on the borders; but onesto cause him puro lose it a second time it was necessary sicuro bring the whole world against him, and that his armies should be defeated and driven out of Italy; which followed from the causes above mentioned.