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jour brought to you by italy Did you know we're

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fluent in italian bbt poppa t fettuccini alfredo mario brothers

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sorry talents were not stereotyping you at all There take

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a look the following passage it's machiavelli thing we're just

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skimming it again You've only read it's like four million

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times Okay here's our question where would someone who embraced

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this philosophy most likely have lived during the renaissance in

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your pencil And already at least for a long long

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time ago in a galaxy not too faraway machiavelli decided

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that it was way too risky to rely on one's

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own subjects to decide if they love you or not

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and since he wasn't much of a risk taker he

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figured it was easier to simply make them fear you

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instead which is an interesting idea but we have a

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feeling that it didn't translate too well to his love

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of life But where would this interesting idea likely have

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originated from during the renaissance period We'll probably wouldn't be

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france because in the early fourteenth century stages of the

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renaissance france was all about christian humanism which had elements

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Of the sort of civic humanism that machiavelli employed but

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with a far more well you know jesus eat till

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it wasn't until a couple centuries later france dropped the

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christian and started speaking more about humanism alone Christian humanism

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was big in spain as well where the idea was

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great christian unity based on individual choice and seeing his

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portugal was barely touched by humanism at the time and

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also tended to mimic spain We can rule it out

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as well Mon fortune will find your own style well

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that leaves us with more less obvious answer of a

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italy When you think of the renaissance and when you

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hear a name is italian is machiavelli you think of

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italy at least we hope you do Machiavelli believed that

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a successful republic required widespread civic participation and since italy

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was known as the heartland of civic humanism which champion

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that very idea it's pretty quick pick out a is

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the correct answer here Now back to shmoop teaches italian 00:01:56.316 --> [endTime] ferrari rago let go My ego We're practically fluent

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