HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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John Calvin
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Martin Luther
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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King Henry VIII
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Detailed explanation-1: -Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman and secretary of the Florentine republic. His most famous work, The Prince (1532), brought him a reputation as an atheist and an immoral cynic.
Detailed explanation-2: -Machiavelli was a 16th century Florentine philosopher known primarily for his political ideas. His two most famous philosophical books, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, were published after his death.
Detailed explanation-3: -All through its history, realism, as articulated in various ways by its exponents such as Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Carr, Niebuhr, Morgenthau and Waltz, has been a highly contentious perspective on the nature of international relations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Until Machiavelli’s writing, most philosophers of politics had defined a good leader as humble, moral and honest. Machiavelli shed that notion, saying frankly, “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot have both.”