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Utopian Texts
Chronological List of Utopian Texts
Note: not all of these texts are necessarily 'utopias' in the strict sense (whether there can be said to be a strict sense of this term is another matter), but they all have elements of the genre - or are used in our course.

Several early modern utopian texts can be found in digital reproductions of the original editions on Early English Books Online (EEBO) and/or Gallica.

The compilers of the New York Public Library exhibition Utopia: the search for the ideal society in the western world have put together an even more comprehensive bibliography of primary texts, starting at 1516. See also the hardly less comprehensive primary bibliography of the exhibition "Utopie, la quête de la société idéale en Occident" at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Antiquity
PLATO (c. 429-347 BCE), Republic (late 370s BCE)
LUCIAN (born c. 120 CE), The True History

Early Modern
THOMAS MORE (1478-1535), De optimo reipublicae statu deque nova insula Utopia (Louvain, 1516)
JOHANN EBERLIN VON GÜNZBURG (c. 1470-1533), New Statuten die Psitacus gebracht hat auss dem Land Wolfaria (Basel, 1521)
ANTON FRANCESCO DONI (1513-1574), I Mondi (1552)
FRANCESCO PATRIZI (1529-1597), La città felice (Venice, 1553)
KASPAR STIBLIN, Commentariolus de eudaemonensium republica (Basel, 1555)
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS (c. 1495-1553), Oeuvres (Lyon, 1558)
LODOVICO AGOSTINI (1534-1590), La repubblica imaginaria (written 1585-90)
TOMMASO CAMPANELLA (1568-1639), La città del sole (first Italian version composed 1602; first Latin version published 1623)
JOSEPH HALL (1574-1656), Mundus alter et idem ('Frankfurt' [i.e. London], 1605)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI Part II (c. 1590), Act IV, scene 2, and The Tempest (1611)
'I. D. M., GENTILHOMME TOURANGEAU', Histoire du grand et admirable royaume d'Antangil (Saumur, 1616) [On Gallica N101920]
JOHANN VALENTIN ANDREAE (1586-1654), Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio (Strasbourg, 1619)...