In 1502 Leonardo entered the service of Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander the VI, as senior military architect and general engineer. ... He went to Rome where his friend, Giuliano de'Medici, the brother of the Pope Leo X, offered him living space in his residence in the Vatican. ...
On April 15, 1452 Leonardo Da Vinci was born in the Tuscan town of Vinci. He was the illigitame son of a Wealth Florentine notary. In the mid-1460's his family settled in Florence, which was the intellectual capital of Italy at the time. He was given a good education and in 1466 he was apprenticed ...
Machiavelli stressed the need to conquer new lands and for princes to maintain their power through any means necessary, using Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia, and Julius II as his primary examples. ... Humanistic thought did not flourish in Rome until the papacy of Pope Nicholas V (1447-1455). He became the first pope to openly advocate humanism, and he recruited scholars to come to Rome and translate ancient Greek texts (Humanism: Italy" 4). ...
In Niccolo Machiavelli's the Prince, he is conveying to the reader and also to the Medici family, his views on how Princes should run their states. As one gets further into the reading they will find the Machiaveli's ideal Prince is a harsh and fierce individual that must be able to execute actions...
