Answer:
The correct answer is B. Niccolo Machiavelli contributed to the Renaissance with the book The Prince.
Step-by-step explanation:
The Prince is a political writing authored by Florentine Niccolo Machiavelli and dedicated to Lorenzo II de Medici.
The Prince is divided into 26 chapters; In the first, Machiavelli states that monarchies have a certain advantage over republics. The book is written partly as a historical account, and partly through the analyzes as an idea writing about how a good prince should act and behave, and reminds the genre of a chronicle. Machiavelli was a distinctively realistic thinker, and the Prince was considered by many as deeply immoral, often even by royalists, as the result is more important than a prince's morals and intent. In Fursten no room is given for a regent's individuality, but his conduct and moral position are to be seen in the light of his function in the state.
Virtue is a central concept in The Prince, where it stands for the trait that a successful prince must have, besides good luck, to seize and retain power. Machiavelli's virtue is the ability to act, to seize the opportunity in flight and has little to do with virtue in the moral sense.