According to Machiavelli's the Prince, princes should act in a practical manner. Machiavelli produced a practical guide to the arts of statecraft, which served the practical needs of the powerful families that emerged in the Italian city-states during the Renaissance. Statecraft involved carefully crafted approaches to the realistic conditions faced by rulers. It was driven less by emotion or morality but reason.
<span>Great Britain did no receive any land in Europes mainland during the Congress of Vienna. The country did however, receive considerable holdings in the new colonies. The rest of the nations in the Congress of Vienna, received at least some portion of land in Europe.</span>