A new edition of the classic satirical commentary on the quest for the perfect society, attentively re-set according to the designs of the original Latin publication of 1516, Utopia is the story of the traveller-philosopher Raphael Hythloday: discoverer of the crescent-moon island during the course of his travels in the New World with Amerigo Vespucci; who in a series of discourses expounds at length on the peculiarities unique to the political, social, and religious climate of the Utopian nation, &C.