彼得拉克庆祝他们征服财富并登上顶峰的伟大成就。这就是尼科诺·马基雅维利所颠覆的传记传统。

Petrarch celebrated their greatness in conquering fortune and rising to the top. This was the biographical tradition which Niccolò Machiavelli turned on its head.

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1956年，歌手埃尔维斯·普雷斯利、卡尔·帕金斯、约翰尼·卡什和杰瑞·李·刘易斯在孟菲斯太阳工作室的钢琴前即兴表演的照片讲述了一个不为人知的故事。

The 1956 picture of singers Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis jamming at a piano in Sun Studios in Memphis tells a hidden story.

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马基雅维利奉献的开场白让人回想起希腊修辞学家伊索卡特（Isocrates）组成的经典演说《尼科莱斯》。

The opening lines of Machiavelli’sdedication recall the classical oration To Nicoles composed by the Greek rhetorician Isocrates.

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