一如果就马基雅维利与共和主义写点什么,会把作者和读者都置于一系列的诱惑和误解之中。我们通常用“共和国”(republic)和“共和主义”(republicanism)来指一种关于政府的理想,而马基雅维利正专注于这种理想。但是,他和他同时代的人在多大程度上使用一种很容易为这些术语所翻译的词汇,则是另外一个问题;因为“res publica”或者其英文翻译“commonwealth”可以 If we write about Machiavelli and republicanism, we will put both the author and the reader in a series of temptations and misunderstandings. We usually use “republic” and “republicanism” to refer to an ideal about government, which Machiavelli is focusing on. However, the extent to which he and his contemporaries have used a term that is easily translated for these terms is another problem; because “res publica” or its English equivalent “commonwealth” can be