1. Thomas More, Utopia, and Renaissance Humanism

3. Thomas More 1478Born in London 1490Serves as a page in the household of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1492Studies as an undergraduate at Oxford 1494Studies law in London 1502Begins his legal career 1505Marries Jane Colt 1511Jane dies; More remarries Alice Middleton 1516Utopia is published in Louvain 1525Becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1529Becomes Lord Chancellor of England 1532Resigns as Lord Chancellor 1535Executed in the Tower of London

5. Thomas More 1478Born in London 1490Serves as a page in the household of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1492Studies as an undergraduate at Oxford 1494Studies law in London 1502Begins his legal career 1505Marries Jane Colt 1511Jane dies; More remarries Alice Middleton 1516Utopia is published in Louvain 1525Becomes Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1529Becomes Lord Chancellor of England 1532Resigns as Lord Chancellor 1535Executed in the Tower of London

10. De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus... Concerning the best state of a republic, and concerning the new island Utopia, a precious little book, and one no less useful than enjoyable...

11. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, lectorem delectando pariterque monendo. [Horace, Ars poetica, 343-44] He who mixed the useful with the pleasurable won great acclaim, delighting and instructing the reader in equal measure.

12. De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus... Concerning the best state of a republic, and concerning the new island Utopia, a precious little book, and one no less useful than enjoyable...

16. A precious little book, and one no less useful than enjoyable, concerning the best state of a republic, and concerning the new island Utopia. [1516] An excellent, learned witty and pleasant discourse of the best state of a public weal as it is found in the government of the new isle called Utopia. [1624]

23. Memento Mori?

25. The city of Sforzinda

28. Humanism

29. “Humanism was an intellectual movement established in Italy in the fifteenth century which attempted to reorient contemporary education and scholarship around the categories and aspirations found in the surviving literature of the ancient world”.

30. Studia humanitatis

31. “The intensive examination of all aspects of human nature and culture ”