More: Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation - Hardcover

More, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521403189 ISBN 13: 9780521403184

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

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 both 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 regularized in accordance with modern practices. The translation is a revised version of the acclaimed lively and readable Adams translation, which also appears in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. This edition, which incorporates the results of recent Utopian scholarship, also includes an introduction, textual apparatus, a full commentary and a guide to the voluminous scholarly and critical literature on Utopia.

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Review:

"There is much to commend in this Latin/English edition of More's Renaissance masterwork...this edition can be recommended for undergraduate students." The Sixteenth Century Journal

"There is much to commend in this Latin/English edition of More's Renaissance masterwork....this edition can be recommended for graduate students." R.J. Schoeck, The Sixteenth century Journal

Book Description:

A new edition of More's Utopia, one of the classics of Renaissance humanism. It is the first to provide an accurate Latin text and facing-page English translation, and includes an introduction, textual apparatus, full commentary and guide to the critical literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521403189
• ISBN 13: 9780521403184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Logan George M., Adams Robert M., Miller Clarence H.