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

Renaissance Quarterly | December 22, 2006| | Copyright

1. INTRODUCTION

The most striking sixteenth-century reading of Thomas More's (1478-1535) Utopia appears in an improbable place: Jean Bodin's (1529/30-96) Six Livres de la Republique, published in 1576. In book 5 of this work Bodin turns to a discussion of sedition and revolution within states, and comes up against the specter of economic inequality. It cannot be denied, he writes, that "of all the causes of seditions and changes in the Republic, there is none greater than the excessive wealth of a few subjects, and the extreme poverty of the majority." (1) Indeed, ...

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