Abstract:This article excavates some of the classical foundations of early modern European thinking about empire. It shows that Renaissance humanists drew from Roman sources a conceptual apparatus with which they described the Florentine Republic's subjection of neighboring peoples in terms that avoided the idea of slavery. Of particular importance to the humanists' ideological project was their exploitation of the Roman concept of patronage. The article concludes with an account of the radical reappraisal that this patronal vision of empire underwent in Machiavelli's theory of the imperial republic, a theory with the concept of slavery at its heart.

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臣服而不奴役：文艺复兴政治思想中的帝制

摘要：本文挖掘了早期现代欧洲帝国思想的一些经典基础。它表明文艺复兴时期的人文主义者从罗马文献中汲取了一种概念装置，他们用这种装置来描述佛罗伦萨共和国对邻国人民的服从，避免了奴隶制的概念。对人文主义者的意识形态计划特别重要的是他们对罗马赞助概念的利用。这篇文章最后描述了马基雅维利的帝国共和国理论对帝国的这种庇护观所经历的激进重新评估，该理论以奴隶制的概念为核心。