text: This concept is said to be immanent and mythical, but not transcendental in Thomas Flanagan's treatment of it.
full_question: This concept is said to be immanent and mythical, but not transcendental in Thomas Flanagan's treatment of it. In The Banquet, Dante uses this concept to explain why a man at Falterona found a collection of silver. This concept is held to be the "arbiter of one half our actions" according to an author who suggested that virtu, or man's force, can oppose, but not ultimately conquer this concept. In another work, songs titled "Nero's Infamy" and "Glory May Not Last" precede discussions in which the title figure analogizes this idea to an inconstant game. Niccolo Machiavelli suggested that it needs to be "beaten and coerced" like a woman in the twenty-fifth chapter of The Prince. The rise and fall of man is likened to a personification of this concept spinning and turning a wheel in The Consolation of Philosophy. For 10 points, name this medieval concept of things that are beyond one's control, which takes its name from a Roman goddess.
first_sentence: This concept is said to be immanent and mythical, but not transcendental in Thomas Flanagan's treatment of it.
raw_answer: fortuna [or fortune; do not accept or prompt on "luck"]