Applied Operations Mgt. Afflictions - Psych. Dante s various guides serve to cause the reader to consider and re-consider their assumptions about damnation and who deserves to be damned. Bibliography lists 4 sources. The paper argues that Machiavelli believed that a nation composed of relatively powerless common people was best served by a powerful and centralized government which made their decisions for them, and aggressively defended their interests to the betterment of all.
Bibliography lists one source.
Machiavelli outlines the tactics which he sees important in a ruler advancing the interest of their states and themselves in the future in a unified Italian state. Emphasizes that while these writings could be defended as indicative of Machiavelli's virtuosity and high morals, however, they are really more indicative of a man for whom the end justified the means regardless of how immoral and condemnable those means may have been. Bibliography lists 8 sources. The paper focuses on Petrarch's literary criticism and letters, particularly the 'Letter to Posterity' and 'The Ascent of Mt. Ventoux', and is both historical and literary in orientation. Bibliography lists five sources.