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Utopia e realismo sono categorie politiche che compaiono nel Cinquecento. Per Machiavelli compito della politica era riflettere sulla realtà effettuale, per Moro, invece, idearne una nuova. In modi opposti, entrambi reagirono all'esperienza di Savonarola: il suo rogo (1498) aveva segnato la fine del mito della profezia. Da quella triangolazione nacque il pensiero politico moderno, del quale l'utopia rappresentò un elemento fon...

In The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568-1789) Girolamo Imbruglia describes the religious foundation of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay and the discussion of that experience by the public opinion of Early Modern Europe, from Montaigne to Diderot.

In 1734 the kingdom of Naples became an independent monarchy, but in 1799 a Jacobin revolution transformed it briefly into a republic. In these few but intense decades of independence all the great problems of the age of the Enlightenment became apparent: attacks on feudalism and on the power of the Catholic Church, the struggle for a modern economy, and aspirations to change the administrative machinery and the judicial system. Yet Naples was...

Essays on the political and cultural importance of Naples in the eighteenth century.