Cesare Borgia

compassion, to allow disorder to spread” (536). To support his argument, Machiavelli cites several historical incidents of were being feared over loved benefited or saved a ruler’s position or his nation. These historical examples include that of Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI; Hannibal Barca, military commander from Carthage; and Scipio Africanus, Roman general who defeated Hannibal Barca. But since the publication of Machiavelli’s…

Martin Luther’s early life is characterized by a good education with a degree in the Arts that focused on grammar, logic, metaphysics and rhetoric which he earned from the University of Erfurt. However, his life changed when he conformed his life to monkhood in 1505 C.E. He felt that the life of monkhood would help him attain salvation and would drive away the fears he held of hell and the wrath of God. However, Martin Luther did not find the religious satisfaction he was searching for. Although…