The article examines Sparta’s influence on the treatment of luxury and wealth in early-modern republican thought, analyzing three key thinkers: Francesco Guicciardini, Montesquieu and Abbé de Mably. In this view, unnecessary wealth and, particularly, consumption over a certain limited level, is a pernicious extravagance that harms virtue and leads to corruption of the commonwealth that allows it. Both the direct influence of the Spartan example and the correlative Platonic ideal, inspired by the Lacedaemonians, are analyzed; the influence of Plutarch is emphasized. Special attention is given to the distinction between the Platonic account, with the twin dangers of both wealth and poverty, and a simpler, binary opposition of virtuous poverty vs. corrupting wealth. Guicciardini’s and Mably’s views are closely examined; for Montesquieu, the article traces the decisive role Plato plays in Montesquieu’s account of luxury, and analyzes his almost unknown work,Dialogue de Xantippe, showing the importance of Sparta for Montesquieu’s idea of republic.

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在 LACEDAEMON 的阴影下：奢华、财富和早期现代共和国思想

这篇文章考察了斯巴达对早期现代共和主义思想中奢侈品和财富的处理方式的影响，分析了三位主要思想家：弗朗切斯科·古恰尔迪尼、孟德斯鸠和阿贝·德·马布利。根据这种观点，不必要的财富，特别是超过一定限度的消费，是一种有害的奢侈，会损害美德并导致允许美德的国家腐败。分析了斯巴达例子的直接影响和受拉栖代梦人启发的相关柏拉图理想；强调了普鲁塔克的影响。特别注意柏拉图描述之间的区别，即财富和贫困的双重危险，以及良性贫困与腐败财富的更简单的二元对立。Guicciardini 和 Mable 的观点得到了仔细研究；对于孟德斯鸠来说，对话德桑蒂佩，显示斯巴达对于孟德斯鸠的共和思想的重要性.