{Utopian Landscapes [continued]}*[28th April 1991]

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The following utopias are given in E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica]:*

Plato’s Republic 375BCE

Euhemerus’ Sacred History c[irca]300BCE

Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus (lived 46-120[ce]

More’s ‘Utopia’, 1515-16

Antonio Francesco Doni’s ‘I Mondi’, 1552

Francesco Patrizi’s ‘La Citta Felice’, 1553

Tomaso Camparella’s La Citta del Sole’, c[irca]1602

Francis Bacon’s ‘New Atlantis’, pub[lished] 1627

‘I.D.M.’’s ‘Antangil’, 1616

Johann Valentin Andreae’s ‘Christianopolis’, 1619....

– No, I give up, there are too many,

but the dates** alone are (including above):

1515-16, 1552, 1553,

1602, 1627, 1616, 1619, 1648, 1652, 1656, 1676, 1699,

1710, 1726,***

1820, 1840, 1871, 1890, 1888, 1890 & 1894, 1872,***

1905, 1907, 1924, 1925, 1932, 1949,

– ‘including ***satires on utopias; and dystopias (all the 20th**** century ones except 1905# )

This is not an exhaustive list.

Between 1663[ce] (the first) 1858[ce], 138 settlements were begun in North America; foundation of communities etc. has continued into the present day.

*ref E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 12:220-221

**[All dates in this ts journal entry are ce unless otherwise stated]

***[Satires on utopias]

****[Corrected from 19^th century, presumably a mistake for 20^th century]

#{are dystopias}

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