Poli 212
History of

Western

Political Philosophy Professor Sammy Basu

 

Introduction to Machiavelli and The Prince and the Discourses

 

 

Why?

 

1.    Human nature

 

 

Copyright 1995 Nicolas Pioch

Bruegel, Pieter the Elder
Netherlandish Proverbs
1559; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Gemaldegalerie, Berlin
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2.   Nature of reality

 

 

Vanna White

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wheel of Fortune

The concept of the "wheel of fortune" was a common idea in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance period. For many people, good fortune and chance were as reliable indicators of personal fate as faith and good works. The spin of the wheel or the toss of the dice were "tried and true" methods of explaining how the unknown worked and gave meaning to what transpired in everyday life. Lorenzo Spirito's (d. 1496) Book of Fortune, first published in 1482, went through over a dozen editions by 1525, and was especially popular in Catholic countries like Italy.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/earth.html

 

 

 

 

http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/Mantegna/Fortuna.jpg

 

http://www.wga.hu/art/m/master/mz/fortune.jpg

 

 

Fortune
c. 1505
Black ink on paper, 259 x 165 mm
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/m/master/mz/fortune.jpg

 

 

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Astrology

 

 

http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/astrologyinrenaissancefour.html

 

 

 

astrologer consulting the heavens.

From Robert Fludd's Utriusque cosmi historia, Vol II.

 

 

Humoral Pathology

http://www.intermaggie.com/med/humors.php