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