• Publication: Famous Utopias of the RenaissancePublication Record # 13135
• Editor: Frederic R. White
• Date: 1946-00-00
• Publisher: Packard & Co.
• Pub. Series: University Classics
• Pages: xxiv+250
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Utopia is a modernized version of the 1551 translation by Ralphe Robynson (Ralph Robinson). The Abbey of Theleme is from the translation by Thomas Urquhart. Of the Cannibals (Des Cannibals) is taken from the 1603 translation of Montaigne's Essays by John Florio. Gonzalo's Speech is from Act II, Scene I of The Tempest. The City of the Sun is from the abbreviated translation by Thomas W. Halliday. Though not stated, Bacon's New Atlantis appears to be a modernized version.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Introduction (Famous Utopias of the Renaissance) • essay by Frederic R. White
• 3 • Thomas More • essay by Frederic R. White
• 5 • Utopia • (1893) • novel by Sir Thomas More (trans. of Utopia 1516)
• 121 • Francois Rabelais • essay by Frederic R. White
• 123 • The Abbey of Theleme • [Gargantua et Pantagruel] • (1653) • short story by
  François Rabelais^?Francois Rabelais
• 139 • Michel De Montaigne and William Shakespeare • essay by Frederic R. White
• 141 • Of the Cannibals (excerpt) • short story by Michel de Montaigne
• 151 • Gonzalo's Speech (The Tempest) • (1623) • short fiction by William Shakespeare
• 155 • Tommaso Campanella • essay by Frederic R. White
• 158 • The City of the Sun • (1885) • novella by Tommaso Campanella (trans. of La città del Sole 1602)
• 207 • Francis Bacon • essay by Frederic R. White
• 209 • The New Atlantis • (1627) • novelette by Francis Bacon (trans. of Nova Atlantis 1624)