He used many pagan references and strays away from the Church by using evidence from the Old Testament and quoted Heathens and Greeks. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote AThe Prince@, dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici which was written in order to educate man on successful ruling practices. What made AThe Prince@ so controversial was that it was a direct challenge to the papacy...
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What made AThe Prince@ so controversial was that it was a direct challenge to the papacy. It addresses how a ruler should gain, maintain, and increase political power by any means necessary and disregards any Christian standards of morality (Mirkin). AThe Prince@ was directly reflected upon Cesare Borgia who began the work of uniting central Italy by ruthlessly conquering and exacting total obedience from the principalities making up the papal states...
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