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A 5 page paper which examines why Machiavelli’s
examinations of human nature and politics presented in “The Prince” offended so many
people during his time. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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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 paper 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." Machiavellis Work
and Critics "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 participate
in inter-Italian warfare" (Hoyt, 2002; hoyt.htm). The powers that were outside, however, "proved overwhelmingly powerful: even coalitions of all five Italian states failed to successfully resist French and Hapsburg
armies. By the middle of the 16th century, Italy had become a battleground for the ambitions of France and the Empire, and the Italian states found their sovereignty and freedom
of action declining as they relied increasingly on alliances with one or the other of the two great powers" (Hoyt, 2002; hoyt.htm). As a result of this chaos, "Machiavelli
wrote The Prince for Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence. It was intended as a primer of sorts: a distillation of Machiavellis service in the Italian wars to date and
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