The Prince was written by Machiavelli as a how to guide for the prince of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici, on how to rule and be an effective ruler. ... The prince addresses how the various types of principalities, the routes taken to acquire power, and the manner in which a prince must conduct himself. ... However, that is not the case when it comes to The Prince. ... In The Prince, it is actually advised for Princes to maintain this particular facade. ... It also takes away from the power from prince when his own army strength is provided by another prince. ...

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The Prince By: Niccolo Machiavelli Julius Caesar once said, "I came, I saw, I conquered." Niccolo Machiavelli' s novel The Prince, he envisions himself as a ruler and through his successes and failures at political strategy, he achieves greatness through his final achievement of writing a masterpiece. ... My second reason that inspired Machiavelli to write The Prince, promises to benefit future rulers on how to rule more effectively. ... If Julius did not invest so much time in a false appearance, he could have redeemed himself rather then becoming a mean and hurtful prince. ... Ma...

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He claims that the people have a natural response of resisting a new prince that enters their territory and that the new prince cannot truly punish them if he is trying to win their support. ... Vices that would normally be condemned however, are sometimes necessary in protecting the prince's interests. ... Moving on to honesty, Machiavelli seems to believe that dishonesty has its benefits among princes too. ... A prince must appear virtuous, but he doesn't have to have virtue. ... By giving the masses access to weapons, they help both themselves and the prince from enemy attacks. ...

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"The Prince" by Nicolo Machiavelli is a poltical view on how an individual might gain, maintain, and expand the power over the state or states in which a ruler has authority. ... Machiavelli's book, "The Prince" was written in the sixteenth century. ... In contrast with "The Prince", Luke's Gospel had somewhat different origins. ... Did the people of the times attribute to or detract from either "The Prince" or Luke's Gospel's ability to have their ideas passed down through generations? ... It is obvious than that the most use of "The Prince" came ...

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To this end, In The Prince, Machiavelli offers the following advice to would be princes: "You should know, then, that there are two ways of contending: one by using laws, the other, force. ... Machiavelli insists that the prince should seem "exceptionally merciful, trustworthy, upright, humane and devout" and says further that the prince "need not actually posses all the above mentioned qualities, but he must certainly seem to" . ... Another instance, for which Machiavelli feels that it is necessary for a prince to venture beyond "properly human means" and act beastly, or cruel is the wa...

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(The first holds the actual character, personality, beliefs of the prince;! ... It might be good to note the slightly chauvanistic temper to The Prince. ... And, of course, most frequent of all was Machiavelli's emphatic comment that a new prince could only manage ! ... This is so important--and virtuous--because it would keep the prince from fouling his residence (and thus from fouling Florence) and it would tend to make him a Florentine, the best thing for a prince of Florence to be. In the final analysis, virtu and fortuna come screaming out from the pages of The Prince itself. ...

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Analysis of Shakespeare's Othello & Machiavelli's The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince serves as a guideline to attain and remain successful in power. He explains what obstacles a new "prince" faces when he comes into authority. ... In his most famous work, The Prince, he describes the method by which a prince can acquire and maintain political power. ... Machiavelli concludes, "every prince shall wish to be thought compassionate, not cruel...however a new prince cannot possibly avoid the name of cruel...... respected general; a new authority, "a prince." ...

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It was during this exile that he wrote his most famous work, The Prince, a piece about political power. ... He says that "A Prince, therefore, need not necessarily have all (good) qualities but should certainly appear to" (Machiavelli, 55). ... Oddly enough, the prince that Machiavelli proposes, one whose substance is assumed very achievable, as opposed to the unattainable ideal, has a more difficult job. ... His work, The Prince, however, was published shortly after his death. ... It could be said, by any educated individual, that reading The Prince has become a prerequisite to holding of...

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Societal reform was also the aim of Niccolò Machiavelli in his book, The Prince. He wrote didactic literature on governing and politics for the one in power, the prince. ... Throughout The Prince, Machiavelli expresses realpolitik when identifying the best way to lead a political realm. ...

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The baby prince Henry was born of January 1, 1511. ... In october, a prince was born at hampton court palaceand was christened on the 15th of october. ... He then went to his country house in Percussina and wrote the prince....

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"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. He modeled his treatise on that of Aristotle's Politics, and his premise of how princes should conduct themselves morally was based on an understanding of human nature itself. With respect and knowledge of the actual virtues man possessed, a p...

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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. ... The Prince is a work that describes how to manage the land and its people. ...

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Machiavelli wrote one of the most influential political books of all time, called the Prince, which is considered one of the most important works to stem from the Italian Renaissance. Machiavelli expanded on his belief in the Prince, that Italians should behave with ferocity when it comes to politics, and should back up that ferocity with a unified force. ...

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Machiavelli wrote one of the most influential political books of all time, called the Prince, which is considered one of the most important works to stem from the Italian Renaissance. Machiavelli expanded on his belief in the Prince--that Italians should behave with ferocity when it comes to politics--and should back up that ferocity with a unified force. ...

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LEONARDO DA VINCI In the fifteenth century, Italy was not the unified country we know today. At that time the boot-shaped peninsula was divided into many small independent states. Naples in the south was ruled by a series of kings. Popes of the Roman Catholic Church ruled the middle section. ...

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Europe went through vast changes between 1300 and 1600 with astounding inventions in the disciplines of science, astronomy, exploration and art (painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature). This time period, known as the Renaissance, was seen as a new age of learning and thinking with a cultural movement in which art, literature, music, philosophy, and education contributed to numerous developments and influences. The Renaissance movement had its genesis in fourteenth century Florence, Italy with the notable writer Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) endorsing the idea of a reawakening of...

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Introduction "Fashion today is rapidly changing. It has shown that the fashion design retail market has been buoyant in the 1990s growing from £16 billion in 1992 to £24 billion in 1998- (Goldsmith 1996) Fashion is all about self image, and using products, but more often, brands, as symbo...

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Research Paper: Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was a super-genius and one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo was also an architect, engineer, scientist, mathematician and philosopher. Sadly, Leonardo only had a limited amount of completed paintings, and he made many important scientific discoveries, yet he never published any of them for the world to see. He was a vegetarian who loved animals and detested war, yet he got a job as a military engineer and invented many advanced and deadly weapons. Leonardo's most famous painting is the Mona Lisa, and there l...

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