Contained in:
Book Chapter

La Nuova Atlantide

  • Giandomenico Amendola

The chapter examines Bacon's New Atlantis (1627) as a landmark in scientific utopianism, where reason and empirical inquiry replace philosophical speculation. The island city of Bensalem, centred on the Salomon's House research institution, prefigures modern academies and the smart city. Science becomes the engine of human happiness, shifting the utopian focus from urban form to the quality of civic life.

  • Keywords:
  • Bacon,
  • New Atlantis,
  • science,
  • progress,
  • Salomon's House,
+ Show More

Giandomenico Amendola

University of Florence, Italy

PDF
  • Publication Year: 2026
  • Pages: 35-37
  • Content License: CC BY 4.0
  • © 2026 Author(s)

XML
  • Publication Year: 2026
  • Content License: CC BY 4.0
  • © 2026 Author(s)

Chapter Information

Chapter Title

La Nuova Atlantide

Authors

Giandomenico Amendola

Language

Italian

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4.09

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2026

Copyright Information

© 2026 Author(s)

Content License

CC BY 4.0

Metadata License

CC0 1.0

Bibliographic Information

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

Copyright Information

© 2026 Author(s)

Content License

CC BY 4.0

Metadata License

CC0 1.0

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

0

Fulltext
downloads

0

Views

Export Citation

1,481

Open Access Books

in the Catalogue

3,227

Book Chapters

5,569,557

Fulltext
downloads

5,515

Authors

from 1181 Research Institutions

of 66 Nations

77

scientific boards

from 413 Research Institutions

of 46 Nations

1,316

Referees

from 405 Research Institutions

of 39 Nations