More Utopia Latin Text and English Translation [Hardcover]

New edition of More's Utopia with Latin text and English translation - the first since 1965.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.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.Thomas More's Utopia is one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. This is the first edition since 1965 to combine More's Latin text with an English translation, and the first to provide an accurate Latin text. Spelling and punctuation have been regularized, and the translation is a revised version of the acclaimed Adams translation, also published in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. The edition includes an introduction, textual apparatus, a full commentary and a guide to the critical literature on Utopia.Preface; Textual practices; Introduction; Interpretative contexts; The Latin text; Brief guide to scholarship; Utopia: text and translation; Appendix; Index. 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