Machiavelli believed that a prince should be well versed in war. ... Now, during these times in which Machiavelli was living, countries were always at threat of war for land, resources, and religion. ... Another quality that Machiavelli refers to in The Prince is generosity. ... Machiavelli possesses all the qualities that he laid out in The Prince. ... (Hale xi) Machiavelli truly had the qualities of a prince. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

From politics, law, design, fashion, sports, architecture, farming, war, art, language, religion and more. ... My first experience in Italian studies was The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince, he describes what men really do and shows what human nature is truly like. ... Political science described by Machiavelli as exactly that. ... The Prince is a work that describes how to manage the land and its people. ...

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Not only did humanists write about the pagan religions of the classical era, but they also attacked the church for its corruption, such as in Valla's Of the Profession of Religious Life (Kekewich 161). "The Prince," written by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1513, was a great representation of the new ideas that surfaced within literature during the Renaissance. ... 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. ... With respect and knowledge of the ac...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By studying how humanists before them used reason instead of religion to explain things they learned from it. ... However, they were not ignoring religion in any way. ... Most humanists wanted to bring together classical philosophy with Christianity however; Pico tried bringing together all human beliefs and religion. Machiavelli wrote a book called "The Prince". ...

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• Grade Level: High School