Aspects of Collecting in Renaissance Padua: A Bust of Socrates for Niccolò Leonico Tomeo

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Niccolò Machiavelli is an Italian diplomat, politician, writer, philosopher of the Renaissance. He is an important contributor to the field of modern political science, especially political ethics. After Medici 's reign, he wrote his most famous work "Prince" and took him out of politics. The shameful and corrupt politician he said in the "Prince" is the source of inspiration for the generic term "Machiavellian".

In addition to Christianity, classical literature, and scholarships, the fourth influence of Renaissance literature is politics. The most famous piece of political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli is about Levi, the history of Florence, and finally the prince famous for Western society, the term "Machiavellian" refers to the real politics advocated by that book . One of the roles of Petrarch is the role of the founder of the new academic method, Renaissance Humanism. Humanism is an optimistic philosophy that human beings are rational and perceptual beings, they have the ability to decide and think about themselves. It implicitly rejects the vision of the soul as the sole absolute reality of the Roman Catholic Church, the latter being considered mysterious and fictitious. Humanism believes that people are inherently kind and this position is closely related to the views of Christians as the original sinners need redemption.

Humanism of the Renaissance highlighted human values ​​(see human dignity), opposed doctrine and academics. This new interest in human activity led to the development of the political science of Prince Niccolò Macchiavelli. The difference between humanist and medieval scholars is that they believe that the natural world is mathematically and orderly pluralism, not thinking from the perspective of purpose and goal. The two proposals proposed by Leonardo da Vinci on his notes may best explain the philosophy of Renaissance: