Utopia (Yale Nota Bene Series)
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Sixteenth-century classic by brilliant humanist, churchman and scholar envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed and vice were nonexistent. Forerunner of many later attempts at establishing "Utopias" both in theory and in practice.Louis MartzClarence Miller has made a lively and accurate translation which preserves the subtlety and wit of More s own Latin. Fluent and highly readable, this new version should be welcomed by all admirers of the Utopia.
ForewordPrefacePt. 1Introduction: More's Utopia in Historical Perspective1Texts3Contexts26Developments51Pt. 2Utopia81Letter from Peter Giles to Hierome Buslide202A Meter of Four Verses205A Short Meter of Utopia206Gerard Noviomage of Utopia206Cornelius Graphey to the Reader207The Printer to the Reader207Ralph Robynson's Dedicatory Letter to William Cecil209Selected Bibliography213Index225
