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A 7 page paper which examines the possible
tensions or conflicts that exist between Machiavelli’s “The Prince” and Discourses.
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assuming that Machiavelli strongly believed in every possible political perspective he discussed. This, however, was not the case. Each one of these works was written for a different purpose and
thus, essentially, possesses no conflict. However, there are points that seem to be very different without an understanding of the proper historical background. Bearing that in mind the following tutorial
offers an examination of "The Prince" and then discusses Machiavellis Discourses. The paper follows with a discussion of how the two are different, yet they are both merely reflections on
political styles by Machiavelli. "The Prince" Machiavellis "The Prince" is a piece of work that addressed how princes should rule, outlining many different aspects of royalty and reigning
over people. It was a work that received a great amount of negative attention and, in fact, was not published for years afterwards because of the negative associations with the
work. In the following section we examine Machiavellis work and critics, arguing that his contemporaries and others who opposed his work were only angered at the truth that lay within
"The Prince." "Niccolo Machiavellis often-slandered volume The Prince, written in 1513, remains one of the single most important works in Western political thought, and represents one of the fundamental
readings in Western political science. The Prince was written in response to the decay of the Italian states-system" (Hoyt, 2002; hoyt.htm). For more than hundred years "Venice, Milan, Florence, the
Papacy, and the Kingdom of Naples had vied for supremacy in the Italian peninsula, changing alliances and policies in order to ensure that no one state became supreme. Late in
the 15th century, in an effort to change the regional balance of power, Italian states invited first France and later the Hapsburg Empire (Spain and Austria, at the time) to
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