The Prince, Chapter 11: samenvatting

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1. Ancient religious institutions sustain ecclesiastical rulers, allowing them to retain states without defending them or governing their subjects.
2. The narrator asks how the Church gains the worldly strength that Italian rulers once dismiss.
3. Divided Roman barons and short papal lifetimes prevent earlier popes from establishing lasting control.
4. Alexander VI uses money, arms, and Duke Valentino to advance the duke, but the Church inherits the gains.
5. Pope Julius expands Church power, defeats foreign and Italian opponents, and restrains the Roman factions.
6. Pope Leo receives a powerful papacy, and the narrator hopes his virtues increase its standing.

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