Abstract
Guillaume Budé’s prefatory letter to More's Utopia was prominently placed by Erasmus and More. Beneath the letter's disorienting qualities, Budé engages key ideas of Utopia, among them justice, law and lawyers, the “gadfly” of avarice and other sources of political discord, and Christianity and government. Budé’s rhetoric is subtly evocative, particularly in his irony, juxtaposition, and wealth of classical allusions, through which he indicates education of citizens and engaging rhetoric are means toward right government, the pursuit of “Hagnopolis”—an Augustinian Holy City—and ultimately demonstrates the truth, impossibility, and importance of the Utopian isle.
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