v. 1. Preface ;Texts used in translating ; A provision for infantry (a selection) ; The prince -- A pastoral: The ideal ruler ; A discourse on remodeling the government of Florence ; Advice to Raffaello Girolami when he went as ambassador to the emperor ; The legations (parts of dispatches dealing with Cesare Borgia) ; On the method of dealing with the rebellious peoples of the Valdichiana (a selection) ; A description of the method used by Duke Valentino in killing Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, and others [at Sinigaglia] ; An exhortation to penitence ; Discourses on the first decade of Titus Livius -- v. 2. The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca ; The art of war ; The account of a visit made to fortify Florence : a letter to the Ambassador of the Republic in Rome ; Tercets on ambition ; Tercets on ingratitude or envy ; Tercets on fortune ; The [golden] ass ; Machaivelli's comedies: Mandragola. Clizia ; Articles for a pleasure company ; Belfagor, the devil who married ; Carnival songs (five songs) ; Familiar letters (all given are complete) ; A sonnet to Messer Bernardo his father ; Two sonnets to Giuliano, son of Lorenzo De'Medici ; Third sonnet to Giuliano ; Serenade -- v. 3. The history of Florence ; The natures of Florentine men ; Words to be spoken on the law for appropriating money ; First decennale, ten years of Florentine history, 1494-1504 ; Second decennale, five years of Florentine history, 1504-1509 ; Epigram, Piero Soderini ; Epigram, Argus, on the release of Francis I.