EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Pope Callixtus Iii, Cesare Borgia, Pope Leo X
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His name has come to be an adjective . Amoral, unscrupulous, devious, even violent manipulation of political power. More important: he can be considered the father of modern political science, a systematic and knowledge-based approach to power. And he"s part of our big story. We just spent four weeks northern europe, germany , the holy roman empire, netherlands. Back in time (1513) and to a new place (florence, italy) Hmmm, what do you know about big cities. Florence isn"t rome, but you at least might have a sense of how the powerful operatedwe"ll see the intermixing of church and secular power politics. Recall, pope leo x was a medici! This was exactly the time that luther was forging his radical ideas about the need to separate temporal from spiritual powers. Note: luther and machiavelli are writing at the same time but completely independent of one another. The reformation makes very little impact in italy.
