In this passage, Machiavelli announces his break, indeed his repudiation of all those who have come before, all those who have come before.

在这一段落里马奇亚维利，声明自己的不同,他切断了自己与所有先前模式间的关系，不留根蒂。

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Machiavelli rejected this idea of the empire and harked back, instead, to the model of republican Rome.

马奇亚维利拒绝这种,帝国的想法并回到先前论点，相对地，他回提罗马共和的模式。

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