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The Prince (sometimes translated as The Lord) is the most famous treatise by the Florentine thinker, diplomat, and official of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, Niccolo Machiavelli.

The book describes in detail the goals and methods of government, the forms of government known at the time, personal qualities and worldview that an ideal state leader should have. The methods and ways of seizing and retaining power are studied in detail.

The book was a fundamental work of its time on systematisation of information about the state system and state governance.

The Treatise of the Lord was included in the list of banned books by the Catholic Church.

Translated into Ukrainian by Yaroslav Myshanych.