Source manifest — Machiavelli v1

Proof work

The Prince (Il Principe, written 1513, published posthumously 1532).
26 chapters + dedication. Compact and complete — chosen as the proof corpus
(no partial-work ambiguity, the whole treatise fits one KB).

Ingested files

File	Role	Provenance	PD status
prince_marriott_pg1232.txt	primary evidence pool (EN)	W. K. Marriott translation (1908), Project Gutenberg #1232	PD (translator d. 1927; text pre-1928, US PD; UK PD 70y post-1927 = 1998)
prince_italian_ch17_18.md	term arbiter (IT)	Italian original, it.wikisource.org (Testina-lineage text)	PD (author d. 1527)
prince.json	aligned units (EN evidence + IT for arbitrated chapters)	assembled from the two files above	—

Unit ids: prince.NN where NN = chapter number (roman→arabic), e.g. prince.18
= Chapter XVIII. Dedication = prince.ded.

Evidence-pool rule

• EN (Marriott) is the verbatim evidence pool. All blockquotes in
  concepts/, principles/, chains/ are literal substrings of the Marriott
  chapter text (whitespace-normalized). This is 1:1 usable per the brief.
• IT is the arbiter, not an evidence pool. Where a term's meaning is
  load-bearing (virtù, fortuna, lo stato, golpe/lione), the Italian is
  cited in TERMINOLOGY.md and in QUOTE_AUTHENTICITY.md to justify a
  translation choice — never as a soul-core quote in a concept page.
• RU is produced, not sourced. No clean PD Russian Prince translation was
  used; Russian glosses in this KB are our own academic renderings from the
  Italian with Marriott cross-check, always marked «перевод наш», with a
  term-note when the Russian would mislead (e.g. virtù ≠ «добродетель»).

Why Marriott, not a modern translation

Marriott (1908) is the standard fully-PD English Prince. Modern versions
(Bull/Penguin 1961, Skinner-Price CUP, Mansfield Chicago) are in copyright and
excluded. Ricci (Gutenberg #57037) is an alternative PD English but Marriott is
the more widely cited scholarly-annotated PD text, so it is the single evidence
pool to avoid cross-translation quote drift.

Chapters used as evidence (this build)

VI (armed prophets, virtù vs fortuna), VIII (cruelty well/ill used — Agathocles),
IX (people vs nobles), XII–XIII (mercenaries vs one's own arms), XIV (art of war),
XV (real truth vs imagined; praise/blame), XVI (liberality/meanness),
XVII (cruelty & clemency; feared vs loved), XVIII (lion & fox; keeping faith;
appearances), XXV (fortuna), XXVI (exhortation). Chapters I–V, VII, X–XI,
XIX–XXIV are in the corpus and quotable, but the concept set above is anchored
in these.