... accept how the Church worked, the relationship between people and the Church, which was generally based on money. People could go to the Heaven only with the permission of the Pope; or alternatively being the priest led you to get the salvation, that was the kind of the prerequisite to go to the Heaven. Thus, in his work "Praise of Folly ... not criticize the idea of Church but the members of Church because their actions, especially linked with the corruption. For example, Pope Alexander VI epitomized of this corruption, he lived in luxurious conditions, also used money to buy a seat of...

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... of power failed, because they neither successfully occupied all of Italy nor allowed anyone else to control it, causing chaos and instability. For example, Machiavelli discusses the way in which Pope Alexander VI's pursuit to make his son a duke ultimately left him engaged in destructive warfare, with only partial control of his land, and caught between two powerful armies. It is clear ... ...

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