Multiple choice

What Renaissance text offers this passage: “It is much safer to be feared than loved”?

  1. Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron

  2. Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince

  3. Dante’s Inferno

  4. Petrarch’s love sonnets to Laura

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli is a political treatise that famously argues it is safer for a ruler to be feared than loved.