... military operations of the republic. The experiences he gained from the missions gave him insight that would be included in his later writings. Niccolo Machiavelli's contributions to the Renaissance were his writings and ideas on various subjects. He wrote a variety of things such as books about his fame ... and civic virtue among its citizens. Machiavelli's most famous and noted work was called "The Prince," which he wrote in 1532. "The Prince" was a short book that in general, said one thing: all means may be resorted to for the establishment and preservation of authority. In other wor...

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... nobles. Naples shared little in the cultural splendor of the Renaissance. Central Italy was under the control of Papal authority. Supposedly under control of the pope, papal residents in Avignon and the Great Schism made it possible for individual cities and territories to remove ... themselves from papal authority. Some of these city-states included Urbino, Bologna, and Ferrara. The popes of the fifteenth century tried desperately to reestablish their ... state. This ushered in the beginning of modern politics. No one gave a better expression to the Renaissance obsession with political...

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