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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That is to say, the first family of Florence, and lived to see them deposed by a Dominican friar by the name of Savonarola.

也就是佛罗伦萨第一家庭，并在有生之年,目睹他们被一位,名为，Savonarola，的道明会修士所驱逐。

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