Project Gutenberg hosts a public-domain English The Prince
The dated public digital instrument is the Gutenberg book page. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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The dated public digital instrument is the Gutenberg book page.
Context
Access can spread both republican and princely readings.
Niccolò Machiavelli is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
Digital public-domain access is an education path. High confidence.
High confidence.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Niccolo Machiavelli
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.16 · verified
Florentine secretary and writer as documented. Printers, censors, and later rulers reuse the name.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactProject Gutenberg hosts a public-domain English The Prince
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 11 February 2006 · verified
Digital public-domain access is an education path. High confidence.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Library of Congress — The Prince (English editions)Library of Congress · High credibility · verified
- 2.Machiavelli, The Prince — Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Project Gutenberg’s public The Prince (Ricci and later files) made the treatise downloadable without a rare-book room.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorNiccolo Machiavelli
- contributed toFactProject Gutenberg hosts a public-domain English The Prince
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Project Gutenberg hosts a public-domain English The Prince. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-gutenberg-prince
https://factrail.ai/facts/mc-gutenberg-prince
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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