Machiavelli's The Prince is an outstanding book. It presents the theme of how to live the good life and be a good Prince. The good Prince is someone who is never afraid. He lives the good life by scaring other people. Machiavelli talks about how the Prince is someone who knows how to be a governor...

Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474) Dufay was born near Cambrai in the year 1397; by the mid-1420 was becoming the most famous composer in Europe. The outline of his career began to take on greater clarity by 1428 when he was appointed to the Papal Choir, where he remained until 1433 In the 1430s...

Warfare in Elizabethan England War was a common thing in Elizabethan England with a gruelling 40-Year war going on in Italy between Charles V of Spain and Francis I of France. The front line on most battlefields would consist entirely of Pike men; these were the most common of all soldiers an...