Abstract
This contribution intends to consider the problems surrounding the literary genre of The Prince by questioning its unanimous classification as a classical political treatise. The study is conducted on two levels through an examination of factors that are internal and external to the text. On the one hand, it attempts to retrace the author’s experiences while working in the Chancellery in order to determine the extent to which the composition of The Prince is indebted to the author’s writing practices as the Florentine Secretary. On the other hand, it reveals how some characteristics of the text’s syntax and argumentation make it difficult to assume the text’s progressive linearity and a form of univocal causality.
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