Compare and contrast the social ideal (Book of the Courtier) to the political ideal (The Prince) during the Renaissance.

Compare and contrast the social ideal (Book of the Courtier) to the political ideal (The Prince) during the Renaissance.

Renaissance humanist cultivated the proposal of the high-quality life. For example: Castiglione, and Machiavelli fervently infused scholarship with action. Allying their inquiry of the precedent to an experiential study of the present, they championed a brave ideal of the human being that surpassed all traditional models. For Castiglione, the greater kind of individual was the well-formed and cultured being; for Machiavelli, only a heartless master of power politics could guarantee the endurance of the state. They are ambassador of those thinkers who assert the endless capability for self-knowledge and dignified the task of the individual in the worldly world. Their views twisted the modern personality of the humanistic tradition in the European West. These two thinkers express their ideas in the books their wrote. In this paper I will compare and cont...