The Renaissance Utopia_ Dialogue, Travel and the Ideal Society

It has taken me a long time to write this book, during which I have accrued
many debts, both intellectual and personal. It goes without saying that for all that
I owe, any remaining errors are entirely my own. I thank Stephen Clucas, who
supervised my Ph.D. at Birkbeck, University of London, for his generosity with his
time, expertise and limitless knowledge of intellectual history. I am also grateful
to many other staff and students at Birkbeck, and particularly Peter Forshaw, Tom
Healy, Laura Jacobs, and Sue Wiseman. I would like to thank David Colclough
and Colin Davis for their valuable constructive criticism, and William Poole and
Richard Serjeantson for their guidance.
This project has moved with me to the University of Reading via