How To Gain Power During The Renaissance

During the renaissance many thinkers who read the ancient texts and educated themselves started accusing catholic church that it did not care about people and that it was dogmatic always looking for ways to gather wealth and more power these ancient texts came from many sources such as Plato and Aristotle from the western hemisphere or as far away as india

People who believe in purgatory believe that there is a place between earth and heaven which is just blank meaning the soul cannot return to earth or heaven indulgences were meant to be bought in order to assure the soul would go to heaven

The key ideas of the prince were about power and how leaders specifically princes could seek to gain power and also how they could go about maintaining