Machiavelli’s Prince epilogue functions as a political manifesto through mythic identification

Evidence

This is why the epilogue of The Prince is not something extrinsic, tacked on, rhetorical, but has to be understood as a necessary element of the work—indeed as the element which gives the entire work its true colour, and makes it a kind of “political manifesto”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 600

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the representation/ideology strand of the toolkit — how texts fuse passion and reasoning to move people.