Describe a political or intellectual development of Renaissance Italy illustrated by the passage

In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use completesentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.“As to being apprehensive that such an organization [a citizen army] mightdeprive you of the state . . . I reply, that the arms carried by a prince’scitizens or subjects, given to them by laws and ordinances, never do himharm, but rather are always of some usefulness, and preserve the cityuncorrupted for a longer time by means of these arms, than without them.Rome remained free four hundred years while armed: Sparta eight hundred:Many other cities have been disarmed, and have been free less than fortyyears; for cities have need of arms. If cities do not have arms of their own,they hire foreign troops, and armed foreigners more readily do harm to thepublic good, for they are easier to corrupt. Furthermore, a citizen whobecomes powerful can more readily avail himself of foreign troops, and can