Religion in Machiavelli

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The paper discusses humanities in the medieval and renaissance period. The paper examines if religion in present in Machiavelli. The paper argues that there is religion in Machiavelli and explains that this religion is both direct and indirect.

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"Niccolo Machiavelli is one of the most controversial thinkers in Renaissance Europe. This is because his most famous work "The Prince" created a radically different and in some ways a dark and disturbing picture of political life. For example, in the "Introduction" to "The Prince" Anthony Grafton argues, "A prince who truly understood `virtue'- in the sense of the qualities needed to perpetuate his state and his own power-would prefer the `vice' of meanness to the `virtue' of liberality." (Grafton xxiii). What this statement indicates is that Machiavelli was changing the way the political world was perceived."

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