Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation

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First published in Latin in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most influential books in the Western philosophical and literary tradition and one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. This is the first edition of Utopia since 1965 (the Yale edition) to combine More's Latin text with an English translation, and also the first edition to provide a Latin text that is at once accurate and readable. The text is based on the early editions (with the Froben edition of March 1518 as copy-text), but spelling and punctuation have been regularised in accordance with modern practices. The translation is a revised version of the acclaimed Adams translation, which also appears in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. The edition, which incorporates the results of recent Utopian scholarship, includes an introduction, textual apparatus, a full commentary and a guide to the voluminous scholarly and critical literature on Utopia. This is the first in an occasional sequence of dual-language editions of major texts in the history of political thought. Each volume will include a newly revised text with critical apparatus and facing-page English translation with full annotation. Significant introductions by specialists will discuss the intellectual and historical context of the text and its subsequent influence, as well as outlining the major textual problems and the rationale of text and translation. These editions are designed to enable the scholar and specialist to encounter the original language of a seminal text whilst providing an accurate translation and full panoply of notes, annotation and bibliography. Cover Summary Title page Contents Preface Textual practices Introduction Part I: Interpretative contexts Part II: The Latin text Brief guide to scholarship Utopia: Text and translation Correspondence Liber primus / Book I Liber secundus / Book I Correspondence Appendix: The early editions and the choice of copy-text Works cited Index Back cover