| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) |
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Palgrave studies in utopianism |
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Palgrave studies in utopianism.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Translator's Note -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part I: Ludovico Agostini's Imaginary Republic and Italian Renaissance Utopianism -- Chapter 2: Searching for Italian Renaissance Utopias -- Utopia and Utopianism -- What Is Italian Renaissance Utopianism? -- Italian Renaissance Utopias: A Genealogical Approach -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 3: Ludovico Agostini and His Time -- Agostini, Utopianism, and His Time -- The Life of a Renaissance Utopist8 -- Bibliography |
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Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 4: The Imaginary Republic and Agostini's Utopianism -- Context, Structure, and Title of the Imaginary Republic -- The Literary Genre of Dialogue in Italian Renaissance Utopias -- The Characters of the Imaginary Republic -- Agostini's Conceptualisation of Utopia -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part II: Ludovico Agostini's Imaginary Republic: Translation and Endnotes -- Chapter 5: The Origin of Laws and Utopia -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 6: The Cardinal Virtues -- Bibliography |
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Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 7: The Imaginary Society I: The Health System -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 8: The Imaginary Society II: The Political System and the Military Organisation -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 9: The Imaginary Society III: The Economic System -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
This book offers the first English translation and comprehensive analysis (inclusive of introductory study and endnotes to the translation) of the longest and most complex Italian Renaissance utopia, Ludovico Agostinis Imaginary Republic. It not only reveals the significance of a text that has been mostly forgotten; it also shows how an investigation of Imaginary Republic uncovers neglected and surprising facets of Renaissance utopianism. The current scholarly image of Renaissance utopianism is based, predominantly, on English texts. Other European utopian traditions are considered only tangentially and do not substantially inform the overall picture of the nature of Renaissance utopias. This books study of Imaginary Republic, within the context of Italian sixteenth- and seventeenth-century utopias, contributes to filling this gap in the critical literature by expanding the current understanding of Renaissance utopianism. 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 (2013), Italian Renaissance Utopias: Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo (Palgrave, 2019), and Boezio. Un pensatore tardoantico e il suo mondo (2021) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 31, 2022) |
| Subject |
Agostini, Ludovico, 1536-1609?
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| SUBJECT |
Agostini, Ludovico, 1536-1609? fast |
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State, The -- Early works to 1800
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Utopias -- Early works to 1800
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State, The
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Utopias
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030970161 |
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3030970167 |
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