A King should do what ever is possible to unite his state
Machiavelli was all about doing whatever it took even if it was considered immoral.
Add 1+1 then you will get 56 then x that by 100 to get 500
It was an book about the idea of the sun being the center of the solar system called heliocentrism. Church response was sentence Galileo for going against the church teachings.
It was influenced by Roman art and architecture