Italian Renaissance Utopias

This book provides the first English study (comprehensive of introductory essays, translations, and notes) of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias: Doni’s Wise and Crazy World , Patrizi’s The Happy City , and Zuccolo’s The Republic of Utopia , The Republic of Evandria , and The Happy City . The scholarship on Italian Renaissance utopias is still relatively underdeveloped; there is no English translation of these texts (apart from Campanella’s City of Sun ), and our understanding of the dis