Utopian Times: The Quest for the Perfect Society in Renaissance Italy and in the New World

Chapter 1 presents information about the historical context of the Italian utopias. Philosophical issues related to the conceptualization of utopia are discussed in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 addresses historical issues concerning the application of utopias in the New World, where More's and Campanella's utopian projects were realized. A semantic and textual analysis of utopian writings is presented in the last part of this study (Chapter 4). The Conclusion summarizes the study and discusses some utopian developments in the twentieth century. The Appendices present comparisons between Thomas More's Utopia and its Mexican application, and Campanella's Citta del sole and the Guarani republic, that enhance our understanding of relationship between literary and historical utopias.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Italian

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Perissinotto, Maria Cristina

Contributors dc:contributor

• Musumeci, Antonino

• Literature, English

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9990106

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86188