The Book of the Courtier and The Prince were books that explained how to be a Prince, a Courtier, or a well-rounded man. Castiglione and Machiavelli were Florentine and grew up in the same time but they ended up on different sides of the spectrum. They both wrote their books during the same time during the Renaissance. Both were well educated for their time and they were the beginning of the emergence of the middle class. Growing up both their families had money and freedom that allowed them to become educated and enabled them to achieve their own success. Machiavelli and Castiglione believed in your own arms, meaning they will do what they have to do with their military to stay strong as a country. Castiglione and Machiavelli had some similarities but most things were very different.
Machiavelli and Castiglione believe that the Prince and Courtier should appear good but Machiavelli believed that doing evil to achieve goals was perfectly fine.
Castiglione believed in human potential and the ability of a man to improve himself. Machiavelli believed that the end result is all that mattered and how you got there …show more content…
He wrote it professionally to get back into Italy after he was exiled upon the collapse of the republican government that he was apart of. The Prince was written on a concept that Machiavelli follows called, “The end justifies the means”. That means that how you get to the top of the food chain doesn’t matter but that you get there is what matters. The book explains how to find a state and how to maintain the power of the state, which is really needed in Italy at this time. Castiglione wrote The Book of the Courtier to analyze Renaissance individualism that was inspired by a group of sixteenth-century aristocrats at the court of Urbino. Castiglione believed the well-rounded Courtier man should be perfect, which is the opposite of what