It was here, from a place of political exile, that he wrote his major works--The Prince, the Discourses on Livy, and The Art of War.

也就是从这儿，从这个他遭到放逐的地方，他写下大作《君王论》,《论利瓦伊》,和《战争的艺术》

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In the preface to his largest book, the Discourses on Livy, he compares himself to Christopher Columbus for his discovery of what he calls " "new modes and orders."

在他最大一部著作，《论利瓦伊》的序言中，他将自己和哥伦布相比,因为他发现,其所谓的，“新模式与秩序“

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Machiavelli then asserts that his book will deal only with principalities, leaving, he says, the discussion of republics for elsewhere, what one assumes his Discourses of Livy, which he was already writing by this time.

马奇亚维利随后强调,他的著作仅会处理君权，而不论及如他所说，将共和的讨论放到另一本书中，即他的《论利瓦伊》,此书已早先写成。

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