Machiavelli's Utopias in Renaissance Italy

The tradition of utopias in Renaissance Italy began well before the arrival of Thomas Moore's work. Machiavelli was writing too early to be thinking of Moore, or his Italian imitators - he may instead have had Plato in mind. Patrice openly admitted that he was taking many of his ideas from Aristotle's politics,. and Zuccolos Evandria is meant to be more realistic than Thomas Moore's utopia.