As I've suggested before, his more conservative contemporaries were appalled by the proliferation of religious sects in mid-seventeenth-century England.

这如我以前所说，他的保守的同辈人,因17世纪中期英格兰迅速增多,的宗教派系而惊恐。

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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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