Utopia through Italian eyes: Thomas More and the critics of civic humanism.

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Nelson, Eric | Copyright information

Thomas More's Utopia has long been regarded as the great Northern European expression of Italian civic humanist ideals. This article argues, in contrast, that More's treatise constitutes an emphatic rejection of those values. In support of this claim, the article chronicles the reception of Utopia in Italy; it demonstrates that More's text was taken up, not by the civic humanists, but by their fiercest critics. These early Italian readers recognized in Utopia a repudiation of active citizen...

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