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The Renaissance was known for its political conflicts and upheavals. In Italy, the city-states were usually ruled by political factions or powerful families, rather than by an all-powerful king, and the city leaders often fought each other. Machiavelli’s book ‘The Prince’, one of the most important source of political theory ever written, paints a portrait of these conflicts.