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On the Instruction of a Prince — Book I

De principis instructione, Distinctio Prima (the mirror-for-princes)

Gerald of Wales·c. 1190–1217·from the Latin

A full modern English translation of the work — 1 book, 19 chapters — translated sentence by sentence from the Latin, with scripture echoes traced and brief notes on the harder turns of phrase. Choose a section to begin reading.

19 chapters2,994 sentences20 scripture echoes
Devotional manualContemplatio — The Ascent
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De principis instructione — Distinctio Prima

Distinctio Prima

  1. 1.0Praefatio Prima
  2. 1.1De principis moderamine
  3. 1.2De principis mansuetudine
  4. 1.3De principis vereeundia
  5. 1.5De principis ixdientia
  6. 1.6De principis temperantia
  7. 1.7De principis instructione — Distinctio Prima
  8. 1.8De principis instructione — Distinctio Prima
  9. 1.9De principis instructione — Distinctio Prima
  10. 1.10De principis justitia
  11. 1.12De principis providentia
  12. 1.13De principis instructione — Distinctio Prima
  13. 1.14De principis audacia et animositate
  14. 1.15De principis gloria et nobilitate
  15. 1.17De tyrannorum ohitu et fine cruento
  16. 1.18De principis instructione — Distinctio Prima
  17. 1.19De principalium nominum expositione
  18. 1.20De principis instructione — Distinctio Prima
  19. 1.21De finali principis inteniione et felici totiics vitce consummatione