Description
Book SynopsisInspiring, provocative, prophetic, and enigmatic, Utopia is the literary masterpiece of a visionary statesman and one of the most influential books of the modern world.
Table of ContentsPreface
Translatorʼs Note
Abbreviations
The Text of Utopia
Backgrounds
Plato • [The Guardians]
Ovid • [The Golden Age and After]
The Acts of the Apostles • [The Community]
Lucian of Samosata • [Saturnʼs Age]
St. Ambrose • [Nabothʼs Vineyard]
St. Benedict • [Monastic Rules]
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Anonymous • From The Land of Cockayne
Amerigo Vespucci • From The Four Voyages
The First Voyage
The Fourth Voyage
G. R. Elton • [The Problems of the Realm]
The Humanist Circle: Letters
Peter Giles to Jerome Busleyden
Jerome Busleyden to Thomas More
Guillaume Budé to Thomas Lupset
Erasmus of Rotterdam to Johann Froben
Thomas More to Peter Giles
Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten