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Often appears with: english descent · tuscany ambitions · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · trade, markets, and merchants · strategy and the aims of war · revolution and the fall of states · reconciliation · peace with europe · parish divisions · new pope risk · local prejudice · free port
Usually: argument (1) · commentary or gloss (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)
“He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince · insight
Machiavelli explains Cesare Borgia’s strategic shift away from French dependence, his plan to secure future power against a new pope, and how Alexander’s death left the duke vulnerable due to health and hostile armies.
[6] Julius II was Giuliano della Rovere, Cardinal of San Pietro ad Vincula, born 1443, died 1513. When all the actions of the duke are recalled, I do not know how to blame him, but rather it appears to be, as I have said, that I ought to offer him for imitation to all those who, by the fortune or the arms of others, are raised to government. Because he, having a lofty spirit and far-reaching aims, could not have reg…
Paine claims a free America can rely on commerce for European peace because Europe benefits from America as a free port, and he challenges reconciliation advocates to name any advantage of union with Great Britain.
and sixty miles (the extent of England) and carry our friendship on a larger scale; we claim brotherhood with every European christian, and triumph in the generosity of the sentiment. It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradations we surmount the force of local prejudice, as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world. A man born in any town in England divided into parishes, will naturally associate most with h…