chapter 19

Much like in Italian Renaissance people today with wealth have much more power than the average person. Although now a days the amount of money that a person has is not their typical topic of conversation, they still have power, and other people are aware of it. Like the condotteiri who owed allegiance to only those who paid them well, many political figures are paid to do one thing or another. Paying these political figures off gives more power to the wealth people who are paying them to do as they ask.