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PRINCE. In a general sense, a sovereign the ruler of a nation or state. The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood. The chief of any body of men.
     2. By a clause inserted in policies of insurance, the insurer is liable for all losses occasioned by "arrest or detainment of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever." 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1218.
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Clearly, the political ideology of the time was beginning to shift toward a notion of princeship anchored on religious morality: even godlike kings must face the wrath of divine justice.
Salvatore Di Maria. The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance--Cultural ... by Bancheri, Salvatore / Italica
From her analysis, "Comedy, Machiavelli's Letters, and His Imaginary Republics," Machiavelli emerges as one who delights in his imagination of theoretical conquests and princeship, and ultimately becomes, through the imaginative exercise of his comic art, "a founding prince of imaginary republics and the educator of those who with the wisdom he teaches may be the founders of actual regimes" (59).
Vickie B. Sullivan, ed. The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli: Essays ... by Di Maria, Salvatore / Italica
 
 
 
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