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given its first and most powerful expression.

他赋予了这个词最早最有力的表述
But Machiavelli was not an ordinary Florentine.

但马基雅维利并不算是典型的弗洛伦撒人
He grew up under the rule of the Medici.

他在梅第奇的统治下长大
That is to say, the first family of Florence,

弗洛伦撒最有影响力的家族
and lived to see them deposed

并且目睹他们被驱逐
by a Dominican friar by the name of Savonarola.

被一个叫萨伏那罗拉的多名我会教士驱逐
Savonarola attempted to

萨伏那罗拉企图
impose a kind of theocracy in Florence,

将佛罗伦萨纳入神权统治
a sort of Christian republic of virtue.

一种基督教道德下的共和
But the Florentines, being what they were,

但是弗洛伦撒人本性难移
rejected this idea

他们反对这种想法
and the rule of Savonarola was short-lived.

萨伏那罗拉的统治并没长久