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Italian Renaissance Utopias

Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction

    • Antonio Donato
    Pages 1-5
  3. Wise and Crazy World by Anton Francesco Doni

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
  4. The Happy City by Francesco Patrizi of Cherso

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
  5. Aromatario or The Republic of Utopia by Lodovico Zuccolo

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
  6. Porto or The Republic of Evandria by Lodovico Zuccolo

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
  7. Belluzzi or The Happy City by Lodovico Zuccolo

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 307-318

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

  • Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

    Antonio Donato

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

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eBook USD 79.99
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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