LE UTOPIE DEL SECONDO CINQUECENTO E DEL PRIMO SEICENTO COME RENOVATIO LAICA DELL’IDEALE DELLA FUGA MUNDI

The essay aims to highlight the peculiar characteristics of the utopian literature of the mature Italian Renaissance – a varied production, included among the works of More and Campanella – and to reconstruct its relations with fifteenth-century Humanism, in order to demonstrate how the secularization of the paradigm of the fuga mundi carried out by Humanism and the attention paid by the latter to the concrete repercussions of each kind of life in terms of the common good, of the benefit brought by the individual to the rest of mankind, represent the theoretical background of the works taken into consideration, from La città felice by Francesco Patrizi from Cherso to the Repubblica immaginaria by Ludovico Agostini to the utopian works by Ludovico Zuccolo.