来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：欧洲文明第9集第9集》

Lyon would be a good example.

里昂就是一个很好的例子
Lyon has the most tightly closed middle class

里昂有你所能想象的最为团结的中产阶级
that you can imagine and still is.

至今仍旧如此
Lyon is very Lyon.

里昂就是很了不起
What can one say?

还能怎么说呢
Again, northern Italy you find a huge vibrant middle class,

意大利北部也有庞大而活跃的中产阶级
but not in southern Italy.

南部就很少了
Naples is one of the biggest cities in Europe

那不勒斯是欧洲最大的城市之一
right through the early-modern period.

早在现代早期就是了
You've got a large middle class,

你已经了解了大量的中产阶级
but most of Italy is extremely rural

但意大利的大部分中产阶级非常乡村化
and what you had in Rome is you had clergy.

罗马的中产阶级大多是神职人员