The New Atlantis and the City of the Sun: Two Classic Utopias

In this collection of landmark utopian works, two authors from the Age of Reason and Enlightenment envision their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Calabrian monk Tomasso Campanella was a student of logic and physics while Englishman Francis Bacon focused on politics and philosophy. Despite the authors'' differences in setting and treatment, both of these 17th-century classics reflect the period''s idealism and its revolutionary trends in thought.