@article{1453118,
      recid = {1453118},
      author = {Donato, Antonio,},
      title = {Ludovico Agostini's 'Imaginary republic' : utopia in the  Italian renaissance /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 254 pages).},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book offers the first English translation and  comprehensive analysis (inclusive of introductory study and  endnotes to the translation) of the longest and most  complex Italian Renaissance utopia, Ludovico Agostinis  Imaginary Republic. It not only reveals the significance of  a text that has been mostly forgotten; it also shows how an  investigation of Imaginary Republic uncovers neglected and  surprising facets of Renaissance utopianism. The current  scholarly image of Renaissance utopianism is based,  predominantly, on English texts. Other European utopian  traditions are considered only tangentially and do not  substantially inform the overall picture of the nature of  Renaissance utopias. This books study of Imaginary  Republic, within the context of Italian sixteenth- and  seventeenth-century utopias, contributes to filling this  gap in the critical literature by expanding the current  understanding of Renaissance utopianism. Antonio Donato is  Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy  at Queens College, City University of New York, USA. He is  the author of Boethius Consolation of Philosophy as a  Product of Late Antiquity (2013), Italian Renaissance  Utopias: Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo (Palgrave, 2019), and  Boezio. Un pensatore tardoantico e il suo mondo (2021).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1453118},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97016-1},
}