Utopias, Dystopias, and Humanism
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The Black Plague (1347-1352) and the intensification of interest in Classical antiquity stimulated Italians and other Europeans to imagine a better society in the earthly world. From Petrarch and Boccaccio through the 17th century, men and women imagined utopias, but also their problematic opposite, dystopias of all sorts.
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