History with Machiavelli and Castiglione

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Compare the personality, character traits, and skills of Castiglione’s ideal courtier, as he described them, and those which a successful courtier in the service of Machiavelli’s ideal prince would need to possess. (Machiavelli does not use the word “courtier” in The Prince, but those men whom he terms variously “advisor,” “secretary,” or even “flatterer” seem to be men in the same sort of positions and with the same sort of ambitions as those whom Castiglione calls courtiers.) In what ways would the two courtiers be similar, and in what ways different? How would each courtier serve his respective prince (consider both similarities and differences)? Finally, how would Castiglione’s ideal courtier fare at the court of Machiavelli’s ideal prince, and a courtier from the court of Machiavelli’s prince at Castiglione’s courtier’s court? Best would be by tomorrow  3 full pages