MARS 1F90 Lecture 9: MARS 1F90 lecture 9 winter 2016
9 Mar 2016
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Lecture 9, lecture 8 material: crisis and creativity: introduction. The world of the late renaissance: danger and uncertainty. Never showed what you really thought of the prince. People were very careful to not show o ence. Machiavelli said no to that, can"t run government with a bible in one hand. Baldassarre castiglione: the courtier (means very high class sex worker) Both written in time of unsure politics. Time after invasions of 15th and 16th centuries. At this time machiavelli and castiglione responded to the crises in their own way: niccolo machiavelli: the prince. Lived and wrote at a time when monuments evens occurred in history of florence. Invasion of italy of 1494 (french decided to pay a visit) Machiavelli was sent on adventures, diplomatic type adventures. His idea of the prince was shaped from chiziabortia. Ends up at the court of the restored republic. Diplomatic missions and contact with cesare borgia.
