The Renaissance was a time of drastic changes of faith in the Church and religion, to the faith in human thinking and ideas, along the lines of science, logic, and reason. ... Among these humanists was Machiavelli. ... During his exile, his most controversial piece of work emerged: The Prince. ... The Prince provoked arguments of ideals and religious arguments as well. ... Machiavelli also says that a prince should be able to be deceitful when it can help him gain advantage by appearingvirtuous and upright.? ...

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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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