Ideals And Beliefs In Machiavelli's The Prince

Probably one the most controversial book during the time it was publish. This book challenges the ideal and beliefs of many and still on the presence day people don’t agree with some of the basics concept of it. The Prince by Machiavelli dedicated to Lorenzo di Medici was considered a handbook on how to become a prince and how to retain the positon. Machiavelli goes into detail on explaining how the ideal prince should be. Dante was very influential Italian poet that wrote the Divine Comedy that describe a journal through Infierno, Purgatory and Paradiso. In a deeper level talks about a mediavel Christian theologyBoth men were political writers that had a common view on evilness of human nature and the separation of church and state. If
we take a deeper look into this two books together we can explore how Machiavelli Ideals on being a prince leads the prince into Dante’s hell.
Machiavelli points of views in politics were very controversial.
“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.” Any prince that wish to obtain a kingdom and after getting it being able to keep it needs to keep this in mind. Sometime on one’s life you need to preform deeds that you never though you were able to do just to get what you want but in order to survive need to do these things Machiavelli refers to how in politics it’s necessary to do whatever it takes to get where you desire to be. “A prince must have no other objective, no other thought, nor take up any profession but that of war, its methods and its discipline, for that is the only art expected of a ruler. For Machiavelli it was necessary to go to war in order for a prince to keep his kingdom under control and functioning. In order to be consider a worthy prince of a kingdom the prince had a duty of going to war. In politics it should a en essential goal after becoming a
prince.
It’s hard to accept the fact that we all sometimes need to leave morality behind in order to survive.
“Many writers have dreamed up republics and kingdoms that bear no resemblance to experience and never existed in reality; there is such a gap between how people actually live and how they ought to live” Machiavelli critizes all those writers that talk about morality and how rulers should act with morality because this approach as a ruler would only leave him without a kingdom. What these writers are trying to implement in their books and poems are far from reality and it’s something that might never happen. “Anyone who thinks that an important man will forget past grievances just because he's received some new promotion must think again. Borgia miscalculated in this election, and the mistake was fatal” (7.15) Machiavelli takes the morality out politics. Using the words miscalculated shows that politics is cold and by no means should be something that we can associate with
goodness.
A point of view he stands by and proposes is that politics and religion should be separate. Politics for should be left in men’s hands, while religion should be in God’s hand. They are two different things that should not be address the same way.
Dante focus on the punishments that a person would receive in the afterlife. In the Divine Comedy Dante on canto 28 explains the point of view he has on war. “I’m Bertran de Born, the one who gave evil encouragement to the English prince, I set the father and the son at war…I carry now my brains alas from their stem in this trunk” This man was the one that implement evil into a prince head. However implements war into someone’s head is sinning Therefore here he’s critizing pretty much what Machiavelli is doing to the princes.

Believe it or not, the prince was written long after the death of Dante. But in constructing his system of punishment and virtues, Dante had put the speaker of the unfounded belief system in his hell before the speaker was even born
Machiavelli and Dante are two of the more interesting figures in literature. They define two opposite viewpoints of the Renaissance in several ways Dante believed that God would reveal all and then call on people to account for their actions. In contrast, Machiavelli demonstrated that he believed in no God and demonstrated that bad behavior made a person a target for ruthlessness. Machiavelli and Dante's views on religion, human nature and human behavior bring to the reader's mind questions about their own belief system and what he or she thinks about accountability. Also interesting about these two men is the fact that even though neither of these men were considered contemporaries, they both had similiar views of cynicism towards human nature, but, different views on social structure. It is a combination of each of these elements that Machiavelli and Dante appeal to readers for their powers of suggestion and their attraction for posing questions regarding human