The Prince — Page 14
This was followed by the sack of Rome, upon the news of which the popular party at Florence threw off the yoke of the Medici, who were once more banished.
Darauf folgte die Plünderung Roms, auf deren Nachricht hin die Volkspartei in Florenz das Joch der Medici abwarf, die ein weiteres Mal verbannt wurden.
Unhappily he was taken ill soon after he reached Florence, where he died on 22nd June 1527.
Leider erkrankte er kurz nach seiner Ankunft in Florenz, wo er am 22. Juni 1527 starb.
No one can say where the bones of Machiavelli rest, but modern Florence has decreed him a stately cenotaph in Santa Croce, by the side of her most famous sons; recognizing that, whatever other nations may have found in his works, Italy found in them the idea of her unity and the germs of her renaissance among the nations of Europe.
Niemand kann sagen, wo die Gebeine Machiavellis ruhen, doch das moderne Florenz hat ihm ein stattliches Kenotaph in Santa Croce errichtet, an der Seite ihrer berühmtesten Söhne; in der Erkenntnis, dass Italien, was auch immer andere Nationen in seinen Werken gefunden haben mögen, darin den Gedanken seiner Einheit und die Keime seiner Wiedergeburt unter den Nationen Europas fand.
Whilst it is idle to protest against the world-wide and evil signification of his name, it may be pointed out that the harsh construction of his doctrine which this sinister reputation implies was unknown to his own day, and that the researches of recent times have enabled us to interpret him more reasonably.
Während es müßig ist, gegen die weltweite und üble Bedeutung seines Namens zu protestieren, lässt sich darauf hinweisen, dass die harte Auslegung seiner Lehre, die dieser unheilvollen Reputation zugrunde liegt, zu seinen Lebzeiten unbekannt war und dass uns die Forschungen der neueren Zeit in die Lage versetzt haben, ihn vernünftiger zu deuten.
Vocabulary
- Darauf
- Thereupon, following that event
- folgte
- Followed, came after something
- Plünderung
- Plundering, looting of a place
- Roms
- Of Rome, genitive form of Rome
- deren
- Whose, of which (relative pronoun)
- Nachricht
- News, message, piece of information
- hin
- Toward, in response to (directional particle)
- Volkspartei
- People's party, popular political party
- Florenz
- Florence, city in Tuscany, Italy
- Joch
- Yoke, burden of oppressive control
- Medici
- Powerful Florentine ruling family in Renaissance
- abwarf
- Threw off, shook off (past tense)
- weiteres
- Further, additional (adjective form)
- Mal
- Time, instance, occurrence of something
- verbannt
- Banished, exiled from a place
- wurden
- Were (auxiliary verb, passive past)
- Leider
- Unfortunately, regrettably (adverb)
- erkrankte
- Fell ill, became sick (past tense)
- kurz
- Shortly, briefly, soon after
- Ankunft
- Arrival, the act of arriving somewhere
- Juni
- June, sixth month of the year
- starb
- Died (past tense of sterben)
- Niemand
- Nobody, no one (indefinite pronoun)
- Gebeine
- Bones, skeletal remains of a person
- Machiavellis
- Of Machiavelli, genitive of the name
- ruhen
- Rest, lie (as in remains resting)
- doch
- However, yet, still (modal particle)
- moderne
- Modern (adjective, referring to modern era)
- stattliches
- Impressive, stately, handsome (adjective)
- Kenotaph
- Cenotaph, memorial tomb without actual remains
- Santa
- Saint (Italian/Spanish, used in church names)
- Croce
- Cross (Italian), part of church name
- errichtet
- Erected, built, established (past participle)
- Seite
- Side, page, alongside something
- berühmtesten
- Most famous (superlative adjective, declined)
- Söhne
- Sons, male children of a place
- Erkenntnis
- Insight, realization, knowledge gained
- Italien
- Italy, country in southern Europe
- immer
- Always, ever (adverb)
- Nationen
- Nations, countries, peoples (plural noun)
- Werken
- Works, writings, literary or artistic output
- gefunden
- Found (past participle of finden)
- mögen
- May, might, to like (modal verb)
- darin
- Therein, in it, within that
- Gedanken
- Thoughts, ideas (plural of Gedanke)
- Einheit
- Unity, oneness, political or national unity
- Keime
- Seeds, germs, beginnings of something
- Wiedergeburt
- Rebirth, renaissance, spiritual reawakening
- Europas
- Of Europe (genitive form)
- fand
- Found (simple past of finden)
- Während
- While, whereas, during (conjunction/preposition)
- müßig
- Idle, futile, pointless to do
- gegen
- Against, toward (preposition)
- weltweite
- Worldwide, global (adjective)
- üble
- Bad, notorious, wicked (adjective)
- Bedeutung
- Meaning, significance, importance of something
- Namens
- Of his name, name's (genitive form)
- protestieren
- To protest, to object against something
- lässt
- Lets, allows, can be (verb)
- darauf
- On that, thereupon, pointing to something
- hinweisen
- To point out, to indicate something
- harte
- Harsh, hard, strict (adjective)
- Auslegung
- Interpretation, reading of a text
- Lehre
- Doctrine, teaching, theory or principle
- unheilvollen
- Ominous, sinister, disastrous (adjective)
- Reputation
- Reputation, public standing or perception
- zugrunde
- Underlying, at the basis of something
- liegt
- Lies, is situated, underlies something
- Lebzeiten
- Lifetime, during one's life
- unbekannt
- Unknown, unfamiliar, not recognized
- Forschungen
- Research, scholarly investigations (plural)
- neueren
- More recent, newer (comparative adjective)
- Zeit
- Time, era, period (noun)
- Lage
- Position, situation, circumstance
- versetzt
- Enables, puts into a position
- vernünftiger
- More reasonably, more sensibly (comparative adverb)
- deuten
- To interpret, to explain meaning of something
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