When discussing Machiavelli’s The Prince and Castiglione’s The Courtier, the similarities they entail are that they were written in the same time frame, and that’s essentially it. Machiavelli’s The Prince served as a treaty to the understanding of government, how a state is able to maintain itself and the role of which a prince should involve himself in the maintenance and success of the state. Castiglione avoids talking about governmental affairs, and is simply interested in the behavior of the
The ideas expressed through the documents authored by Baldassare Castiglione and Niccolo Machiavelli are the ways through which the prince and the courtier should serve their master or people. The prince must be feared so that he may not lose his power, while the courtier must show reverence and respect toward his master. In The Prince, Machiavelli describes the ideal prince and how he should rule in order to retain his power. Through several observations, Machiavelli confirms his beliefs that
antiquity. The literature of Niccolo Machiavelli, Francesco Petrarch, and Baldassare Castiglione demonstrates how these characteristics impacted the citizens of Italy, and how they helped shape the Italian Renaissance that we learn of today. As one example of literature containing the principal characteristics of the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli’s The Prince describes his political beliefs as to how a prince should behave. Machiavelli’s literature in many ways illustrates humanism and individualism
Catherine Murphy in The Pope’s Daughter: The Revolutionary Life of Felice della Rovere offers, that despite relative historical reticence, Felice’s story “waiting to be uncovered in an archive in Rome” (315) holds equal merit to Catherine de’ Medici and Elizabeth I for historians. Overlooked as the dark-haired bastard of Pope Julius II, she finds little historical scholarship despite leaving an effect on de’ Medici and her contemporaries. Murphy argues that effect comes in a lesson on “self-belief
Jacob Burkhardt- was a writer during the 1860’s who wrote Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. He said that the Renaissance was a revival of ancient learning; new secular and scientific values that began to supplant traditional religious beliefs. Renaissance- was a time of transition from the medieval to the modern world. Medieval Europe was a fragmented feudal society but through the Renaissance it great by national consciousness and political centralization. Guelf- German and Italian political