... about the pagan religions of the classical era, but they also attacked the church for its corruption, such as in Valla's Of the Profession of Religious Life (Kekewich 161). "The Prince," written by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1513, was a great representation of the new ideas that surfaced within literature during the Renaissance. Once a Florentine diplomat, Machiavelli was sent into exile after the return of the ... to translate Plato dialogues. He later became a leader of the Florentine Platonic Academy, after successfully completing his Platonis opera omnia (Complete Works of Plato) in 148...

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