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Reading question 2: Machiavelli on virtu vs. fortuna

Machiavelli, The Prince chapters 10-18. https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/the-prince.pdf

Format: two single-spaced, type-written paragraphs

Based on your reading of the second half of The Prince, explain Machiavelli’s concepts of virtu and fortuna. Pay especially close attention to those chapters in which Machiavelli elaborates the significance of each in terms of what might be called “statecraft.” Let us define that concept as “action within the limits of human possibility, however wide.”