More and Giles are so impressed with Hythloday that they encourage him to go into the service of a prince as his counselor, but Hythloday has his doubts: princes are too interested chivalry and war to heed wisdom, and his fellow counselors would be proud and corrupt.īy way of illustration, Hythloday recounts a dinner he had at Cardinal John Morton’s table in England years earlier. Moreover, it was in the New World that he came into contact with the Utopians, an island people who live in what Hythloday thinks to be the most perfectly organized commonwealth in the world. Hythloday, we learn, sailed the world alongside the great historical explorer Amerigo Vespucci, and he even traveled to the New World by way of Asia. More, Giles, and Hythloday walk together to More’s house, and in his garden the three men talk at length. More is returning home from church one day when he runs into Giles, who is speaking with an old man called Raphael Hythloday. More then travels to Antwerp, where he takes up residence and befriends an honest, learned citizen of that city named Peter Giles.
When Utopia opens, the character Thomas More is in the Netherlands, serving as an ambassador sent by King Henry VIII of England to hold negotiations concerning the English wool trade.
0 kommentar(er)
