Claude Joly (1607-1700) on Utopia and Other Works of More

This article provides a transcription, from a nineteenth-century fair copy, of one of the chapters on Thomas More in Claude Joly’s Ms Histoire de la renaissance des lettres. That large and amorphous work included a full-scale biography of Erasmus, a translation of whose Institutio principis christiani Joly has published in epitome. The introduction suggests that Joly’s interest in Utopia can be related to his own career in politics, although his analysis of More’s work does not go very deep. That is perhaps understandable in the light of the historical circumstances, the absolutism of Louis XIV and the conservative style of opposition to it

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