1794 Prince's Mirror Macchiavelli Christoph Martin Wieland Scheschian The Prince

Description: 1794 Fürstenspiegel Macchiavelli Christoph Martin Wieland Scheschian Il PrincipeThe description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.Many more old maps, graphics and antiquarian books in our eBay shop!We also buy![Fürstenspiegel / Mirrors for princes --] - Anonymous:Morals of kings in the most ancient times, explained by examples from real history. Scheschian (Altona), among Machiavelli's heirs in 1794. The year of printing on the title is "1172". Cardboard band around 1795 with spine label. 1 sheet, 254 pages. - First and only edition. -- Extremely rare princely mirror, published anonymously. The fictitious printing location "Scheschian" refers to Christoph Martin Wieland's novel "The Golden Mirror or the Kings of Scheschian", the publisher to Niccolo Machiavelli, whose princely mirror "Il Principe" can be viewed as a model for this work. In keeping with Machiavelli's spirit, the author of this work also breaks with the tradition of common princely mirrors, which for the author of "Il Principe" were nothing more than "hollow chatter" and "wishful thinking". -- Criticism of the political system that remains shockingly current. Apart from the language and book layout, the book could have been written today. The anonymity when publishing the document is no coincidence. The book is an extremely biting reckoning with the political elite of his time, packaged as a criticism of fictitious kings of antiquity and early times, based on the characters in Wieland's novel. In the foreword, the author, like Wieland, draws the reader's attention to the fact that the work is in no way a criticism of those currently in power; rather, one can consider oneself lucky to have been "born right now." - Some chapter headings from this work: Seek to bring the noblest, the most powerful, the most eloquent to your side through money, promises and the like; Eliminate in a good way those who oppose your intentions; Arouse great expectations even if you are unable to satisfy them; Use your power where you cannot give proof of your right; Perform individual, apparently good and conspicuous actions; Pay those who are accustomed to flatter the whims of the people, at the expense of the rulers; Make changes in the state administration of your predecessors; Do more effort than your predecessors; Deal with severity against those who do not necessarily want to recognize your reputation in Allen respects; Wage wars!; Try to bring it to fruition in some art, even if it is useless; Favor the military at the expense of the other estates; Never let on that you can be wrong; Do the opposite of what insightful ministers advise you to do; Never concern yourself with the judgments of your subjects; Give the best offices to those who don't have them deserves, nor does he know how to manage them; Do not anticipate the misfortunes of the country, but seek to ameliorate them only when they have already occurred; Establish new medals and reward with new titles; You are not there because of your subjects, but your subjects are there because of you; The regent has more claims on the property of his subjects than they themselves; The lives of the subjects only have value to the extent that the overlord of the country can use it to increase his possessions and his income; The subject only has honor to the extent that the regent allows him; Withdraw from the meetings of your councils, or, if you cannot do this, be as inattentive as possible therein; Do not allow anyone to bother you with petitions; Increase the state collegia (civil servants); Avoid traveling in your own countries; Don't think about the consequences of what you want to do; Leave the subjects uncertain as to which laws are valid; Never give the laws as much power as your decrees; Let the laws be as obscure and incomprehensible as possible; Prevent the laws from becoming known; Change the laws often; Increase the number of laws; Fine the violators of the laws; Give the laws according to which you would like to punish someone only after the action has been done; Free yourself from obeying the laws; Promote your darlings and the darlings of your mistresses; Do not accept complaints against your ministers; Put obstacles in the way of those who care more for your subjects than for you and seek to remove them; Keep spies in your neighbors' countries; Use bribes with the most distinguished and influential people of your neighbors; Try to bring your neighbors, who have greater power than you, to your side by satisfying their favorite tendencies; Seek to engage your neighbors in war; Give something freely to the most powerful neighbor in order to be protected from the hostile attacks of the others; Prevent the enlargement of your neighbors; Against the weaker, allow yourself to do everything that you can do with your greater power; Start war if you feel strong enough to do so; Make your private matters matters of state; Do not torment yourself with doubts about the misfortunes of your subjects; Keep spies, need bribes, etc; Allow looting; Don't expose yourself to danger; Arrange frequent festivals of thanksgiving in your countries for the cities conquered and victories received; Expose the subjects you would like to be rid of to the most obvious danger; Treat enemy prisoners as harshly as possible; regulations to keep the people stupid or to make them stupid; Reduce the prestige of teachers; Let certain textbooks be prepared for teachers to teach; Submit all the writings of your subjects, before they are distributed, to the judgment of those who will not easily allow anything sensible to be written and read; Let the writings that come into your kingdom from other countries be carefully examined; Prove what can work as a means of enlightenment with high taxes; When filling teaching positions, look only at people who you can believe are extremely skilled and willing to promote stupidity; Seek to remove the wisest from their positions; Reward those with the most prestigious positions who will best contribute to the achievement of your purposes; Prescribe to the various parties in your country what each of them should believe to be true; Disputes about truth and error are decided not by reason but by authority; Increase the reputation of the most obedient, i.e. stupidest, party through external advantages; Increase faith in secret knowledge by your own example; regulations to make the subjects poor; Let the profits of your subjects' labors go not to them but to you; Increase the number of holidays; Give the people many celebrations; Provide the most necessary needs with the greatest contributions; Give many pensions and pay many idle people; Do not reward your subjects according to merit; Establish lotteries; regulations to prevent large populations; Break your treaties with colonists; Favor the capitals; Make trade and business more difficult; Sell your subjects; regulations for organizing and maintaining revolutions in the empire; War against peoples who have already really revolted against their overlord; Do not allow speaking, reading or writing about government matters; Need the utmost severity against suspicious people; Show distrust of the loyalty of your subjects; Revoke the promises you made. -- -- The rarity of the work could be due to the fact that it was probably banned immediately after its release. - No copy found at auctions. -- The interested reader is recommended a complete digital edition of the work, which can be viewed via VD18. -- Cover stained, rubbed and bumped -- inside in very good condition. -- Hayn Got. V, 168.Order number: 117610Many more antique maps and prints on our site antiquariat-voelkel. Many more old maps, views and graphics on our own page antiquariat-voelkel.IllustrationsRecorded with whBOOKSafe ordering - order control tested!Item listed with the w+h GmbH eBay service Data and images powered by Book lover (2024-10-09)Scheschian (Altona), among Machiavelli's heirs in 1794. The year of printing on the title is "1172". Cardboard band around 1795 with spine label. 1 sheet, 254 pages. - First and only edition. -- Extremely rare princely mirror, published anonymously. The fictitious printing location "Scheschian" refers to Christoph Martin Wieland's novel "The Golden Mirror or the Kings of Scheschian", the publisher to Niccolo Machiavelli, whose princely mirror "Il Principe" can be viewed as a model for this work. In keeping with Machiavelli's spirit, the author of this work also breaks with the tradition of common princely mirrors, which for the author of "Il Principe" were nothing more than "hollow chatter" and "wishful thinking". -- Criticism of the political system that remains shockingly current. Apar Verlag Scheschian (Altona), bey Machiavellis Erben Erscheinungsjahr 1794 Autor Anonym Sprache Deutsch Genre Bücher / Wertvolle Bücher / Rare Books Eigenschaften Erstausgabe

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