While utopian socialism was used to describe. The politics of Utopia have been seen as influential to the ideas of Anabaptism and communism. Although he may not have directly founded the contemporary notion of what has since become known as Utopian and dystopian fiction, More certainly popularised the idea of imagined parallel realities, and some of the early works which owe a debt to Utopia must include The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella, Description of the Republic of Christianopolis by Johannes Valentinus Andreae, New Atlantis by Francis Bacon and Candide by Voltaire. The Greek word Utopia translates as 'no place' or 'nowhere,' but in modern parlance, a Utopia is a good place, an ideal place (eu-topia). The eponymous title Utopia has since eclipsed More's original story and the term is now commonly used to describe an idyllic, imaginary society. The work seems to have been popular, if misunderstood: the introduction of More's Epigrams of 1518 mentions a man who did not regard More as a good writer. Gilbert Burnet's translation of 1684 is probably the most commonly cited version. Bibliographies, Concordances, and Supplements to Utopia Editions. It was not until 1551, sixteen years after More's execution, that it was first published in England as an English translation by Ralph Robinson. This bibliography, completed up through January 2017, was compiled by Dr. In the same year, it was printed in Leuven under Erasmus's editorship and after revisions by More it was printed in Basel in November 1518. More started by writing the introduction and the description of the society which would become the second half of the work and on his return to England he wrote the "dialogue of counsel", completing the work in 1516. Utopia was begun while More was an envoy in the Low Countries in May 1515. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin.
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