The chapter examines how Jules Verne and Emilio Salgari brought utopian and dystopian futures to a mass readership. Verne's contrasting cities of Franceville and Stahlstadt dramatise the clash between humanist and militarist visions of progress, while his Paris of 1960 anticipates modern technology with striking accuracy. Salgari's Wonders of the Year 2000 offers a more adventurous, ambivalent take on a science-dominated future.
University of Florence, Italy
Chapter Title
Il futuro di Verne e Salgari
Authors
Giandomenico Amendola
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4.18
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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Book Title
L'utopia e la città ideale
Book Subtitle
Sogni, paure, desideri
Authors
Giandomenico Amendola
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
120
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0984-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0985-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0986-1
Series Title
People_Places_Architecture
Series ISSN
2975-0415
Series E-ISSN
2975-027X