POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tendon, Cesare Borgia, Plausible Deniability
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Chapter 12 to 14: m on the military. Chapter 15 to 18: transformation of virtues. Moses, romulus, cyrus, and theseus: the four rulers who were capable of. P 21: good will and good fortune are completely unreliable. Princes who were given a state or bought a state will almost always fail. It wasn"t completely cesare borgia"s fault that he lost his territory. But he did make several mistakes: live on borrowed troops: battles were won in the names of other rulers, not cesare, did not exercise his power to veto the pope: the new pope was his long-time enemy. Chapter 26: machiavelli had great hopes for borgia, but he was disappointed because: i. e. Borgia could have nominated himself as pope and unite italy through religion. Agathocles is wicked, but machiavelli admires him for it: what did he do: wipe out the aristocracy of the city.
