But they're from a very different social class, the patricians of Florence or Venice.

但他们的出身相比威尼斯,或者佛罗伦萨的贵族们而言不可同日而语

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It's the equivalent of fancy patricians in Florence having paintings of themselves.

这和佛罗伦萨那些自负的贵族们要求,给自己画像如出一辙

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Aristotle famously was a tutor of Alexander the Great. Machiavelli spent a large part of his career in the foreign service of his native Florence and wrote as an advisor to the Medici.

亚里士多德有指导亚历山大大帝的著名史实；,马奇亚维利职涯中,长期服务于佛罗伦萨,原乡的外交部门,而且是梅迪西家族的顾问；

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Living in Florence, the center of the Renaissance at the height of the Renaissance, Machiavelli wished to do for politics what his contemporaries, like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, had done for art and sculpture.

住在佛罗伦萨，这个文艺复兴时期的核心,且是在文艺复兴的鼎盛时期，马奇亚维利想在政治上,达到像同辈，如达文西和米开朗基罗，于艺术与雕刻方面的成就。

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Florence was a republic.

佛罗伦萨曾是一个共和国。

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In the city-states of Venice, which was a major trading city already on the decline, and in Florence, and in Milan, and in Turin, and in places like that you find something very comparable, but Italy is not united until the 1860s.

在威尼斯城邦,这个曾以贸易为主的城市已经走向衰落,而佛罗伦萨,米兰,都灵,类似的这些城市情况都是如此,除了十九世纪六十年代才统一的意大利

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That is to say, the first family of Florence, and lived to see them deposed by a Dominican friar by the name of Savonarola.

也就是佛罗伦萨第一家庭，并在有生之年,目睹他们被一位,名为，Savonarola，的道明会修士所驱逐。

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