Overview
- Provides the first English study of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias by Anton Francesco Doni, Francesco Patrizi of Cherso and Lodovico Zuccolo
- Explores how the study of Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo sheds light on the debate about the essential traits of Renaissance utopias
- Includes comprehensive introductory essays, notes, and translations of this set of utopian texts to further our understanding of these texts
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism (PASU)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Wise and Crazy World by Anton Francesco Doni
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The Happy City by Francesco Patrizi of Cherso
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Aromatario or The Republic of Utopia by Lodovico Zuccolo
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Porto or The Republic of Evandria by Lodovico Zuccolo
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Belluzzi or The Happy City by Lodovico Zuccolo
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About this book
This book provides the first English study (comprehensive of introductory essays, translations, and notes) of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias: Doni’s Wise and Crazy World, Patrizi’s The Happy City, and Zuccolo’s The Republic of Utopia, The Republic of Evandria, and The Happy City. The scholarship on Italian Renaissance utopias is still relatively underdeveloped; there is no English translation of these texts (apart from Campanella’s City of Sun), and our understanding of the distinctive features of this utopian tradition is rather limited. This book therefore fills an important gap in the existing critical literature, providing easier access to these utopian texts, and showing how the study of the utopias of Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo can shed crucial light on the scholarly debate about the essential traits of Renaissance utopias.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Antonio Donato is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York, USA. He is the author of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italian Renaissance Utopias
Book Subtitle: Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo
Authors: Antonio Donato
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03611-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03610-2Published: 07 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03611-9Published: 25 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-4471
Series E-ISSN: 2946-448X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 318
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, History of Italy, Cultural History, Intellectual Studies, History of Philosophy