Beginning with the first ancient examples, prince’s mirrors were didactic, exhortatory, or reflective political texts concerned with the norms and forms of correct princely conduct (Authority; Monarchy). Titles variously focused on genre in reference to the mirror metaphor of medieval didacticism (e.g. Speculum principis/regis/regale, “Mirror of the Prince”), on function (e.g. De educatione/institutione principis, “On the Education of the Prince”) or on subject m…