The Prince

The thing that really surprised me is that the writer wrote it as he was actually talking to a prince. In the first chapter he tries to explain that he does that just because he thinks only people can judge kings and only kings can judges people. So in this book he tries to teach everything he learned in his career to a prince, so that he can learn all these things in a very quick way. On the other hand the prince reading this book should be able to understand how his actions are judged by the people. In the second chapter he talks about the type of Principati (reigns). He divides them in hereditary, bought and mixed. Then he compare them, saying that hereditary reigns are easier to govern than new reigns because in the first case people already know how was the last king.