Thomas Morus

Vide etiam paginam discretivam: Sanctus Thomas (discretiva).

Thomas Morus (Anglice Thomas More) fuit Anglicus causidicus, eques, urbis Londinensis civis et vicecomes, Angliae regni cancellarius, Utopiae auctor, politicus, humanista, eruditus, amicus Erasmi, sanctus, et martyr, "homo omnium horarum."

Sanctus Thomas Morus
Martyr
Natus	Londinii 7 Februarii 1477-78
Mortuus	6 Iulii 1535
Patronus	advocatorum, gubernatorum, politicorum virorum ac mulierum
Index Sanctorum

Vita

Londinii die 7 Februarii 1477/1478 spectabili familia Ioanni et Agne Moro natus. Puer (circa 1489-1491) Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, Ioanni scilicet Morton qui cancellarii regni sustinebat partes, inservivit. Oxonii (circa 1491-1493) dein ac Londinii (circa 1493-1495, post 1496-circa 1501) iuridiciali disciplinae operam dedit studia sua in ampliorem humani cultus provinciam proferendo, speciatim in theologiam inque aetatis classicae litteras. Palaeograecum sermonem edidicit ac commercium habuit et necessitudinem cum praeclaris artium renascentium fautoribus, in quibus Erasmus Desiderius Roterodamus (ab anno 1499) recensetur.

• "Ita pro incredibili morum suauitate facilitateque cum omnibus omnium horarum hominem agere et potes et gaudes."
• "laicorum hominum decus et ornamentum." - Pius XI.

Iussu Henrico VIII supplicio punitus est 6 Iulii anno 1535. Morus iudicio iniquo capite circumventus cum Ioanne Fischerio, Roffensi in Anglia episcopo, qui supplicio punitus est 22 Iunii.

"I die the king’s good servant, and God’s first." "[…] qu’il mouroit son bon serviteur et de Dieu premierement." (Translation of the Paris Newsletter account, August 4, 1535)

Fontes

1. Litterae Apostolicae motu proprio datae, 31.X.2000, quibus sanctus Thomas Morus gubernatorum politicorum virorum ac mulierum proclamatur patronus
2. Opus epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami, ed. P. S. Allen, H. M. Allen et H. W. Garrod, 11 tomi et index (Oxoniae: Clarendon P, 1906--47, 1958), I: #222, 460/20--21; cf. Encomium Moriae, Vol. 4/3 Operarum omniarum Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, ed. C. H. Miller (Amstelodamum-Novi Eboraci: North Holland Co., 1979) 67/18--68/1.

Opera

Familiam Thomae Mori post Ioannem Holpenium pinxit Rolandus Lockey

• The history of king Richard the thirde 1513
• Thomae Mori De optimo statu reipublicae deque nova insula Utopia (1515/1516)
  • Thomae Mori Utopia, ed. Loewen 1516
  • Thomae Mori Utopia, ed. Lutetiae 1517
  • Thomae Mori Utopia, ed. J. Froben, Basileae 1518
• Assertio septem sacramentorum 1521/22
• The four last Things ca. 1522
• Responsio ad Convitia Martini Lutheri 1523
• Dialogue of Divers Matters Concerning Heresies 1528
• Supplication of Souls 1529
• Confutation of Tyndale's Answer 1532/33
• A letter Impugning Fryth 1532/33
• Apology 1533
• Debellation of Salem and Bizance (1533)
• Treaties upon the Passions 1534
• Dialogue of Comfort agaynst Tribulacyon 1534
• Epistulae
• Epigrammata
• Translationes
• Thomas More, A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia (prima translatio Anglice) ed. Robinson, Londinii 1551
• Thomae Mori opera omnia, ed. Basileae 1557
• The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, Somtymes Lorde Chaucellour of England, Wrytten by Him in the Englysh Tonge, ed. W. Rastell, Londinii 1557
• Thomae Mori Opera omnia Latina, ed. Francofurti a. M. 1689/1963
• Thomae Mori Utopia, ed. V. Michels/Th. Ziegler, Berolini 1895
• Thomae Mori Utopia, ed. J. H. Lupton, Oxoniae 1895
• The English Works of Sir Thomas More, 2 tomi, ed. W. E. Campbell et al., Londinii/Novi Eboraci 1931
• The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, ed. L. L. Martz et al., New Haven/Londinii 1963 sqq.
• The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Letter to Bougenhagen, Supplication of souls, Letter against Frith, ed. L. L. Martz et al., New Haven/Londinii 1990

Vitae Memoriae

• William Roper, "The Life of Sir Thomas More" (written by More's son-in-law ca. 1555, but first printed in 1626)
• Princesse de Craon, Thomas Morus, Lord Chancelier du Royaume d'Angleterre au XVIe siècle^{[nexus deficit]} (First edition in French, 1832/1833 - First edition in Dutch 1839/1840)

Bibliographia

• Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More (1999)
• Paloma Castillo Martinez, Tommaso Moro il primato della coscienza, Paoline, Milano, 2010
• Jonathan Jones, "Wolf Hall is wrong: Thomas More was a funny, feminist Renaissance man" in The Guardian (29 Ianuarii 2015)
• Richard Marius, Thomas More: A Biography (1984)
• Patricius Owens, "Quis fuerit Thomas Morus?" in Vox Latina: Commentarii periodici favore et subsidio Studiorum Universitatis Saravicae comparati vol. 45, 2009, fasc. 177.
• E.E. Reynolds, The Trial of St Thomas More, (1964)
• E.E. Reynolds, Thomas More and Erasmus, (1965)

Pelliculae

• 1966 - A Man for All Seasons

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Thomam Morum spectant.

Vicicitatio habet citationes quae ad Thomam Morum spectant.

Vide Thomas Morus apud Vicifontem.

Thomas More Studies database: contains several of More's English works, including dialogues, early poetry and letters, as well as journal articles and biographical material

• More and The History of Richard III
• Litterae Apostolicae motu proprio datae, 31.X.2000, quibus sanctus Thomas Morus gubernatorum politicorum virorum ac mulierum proclamatur patronus
• Thomas More et Utopia a Carolo Kautsky
• Utopia apud Marxists.org