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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