Francis Bacon (1) (1561–1626)

Author of The Essays

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Francis Bacon was born on October 28, 1909. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, to parents of British decent but lived with his nanny, Jessie Lightfoot, for many of his formative years. Bacon began painting in his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid-30s. He lived between England and show more Ireland for many years, earning his money by becoming an interior decorator and a designer of furniture and rugs. In 1944 he created his breakthrough oil painting entitled, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of the Crucifixion. The work is said to have been competed within the timeframe of two weeks. The painting was immediately seen as a sensation and established him as an important post-war artist. Bacon himself insisted that no retrospective of his work should include anything produced prior to 1944. Bacon was plagued with chronic asthma which developed into a respiratory condition. He died of cardiac arrest on April 28, 1992. He left his entire estate to his companion, John Edwards, who then donated the contents of Bacon's studio to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Francis Bacon

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The Essays (1597) 2,215 copies

The New Organon (1620) 429 copies

Essays and New Atlantis (1942) 424 copies

New Atlantis (1624) 421 copies

Britannica Great Books: Bacon (1605) 400 copies

The Advancement of Learning (Modern Library Science) (1605) 390 copies

The Major Works (1976) 389 copies

Of Empire (2005) 220 copies

The New Organon and Related Writings (1960) 206 copies

New Atlantis and the Great Instauration (Crofts Classics) (1980) 202 copies

The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh (1882) 123 copies

Selected Philosophical Works (Bacon) (Hackett Publishing Co.) (1999) 109 copies

Selected Writings of Francis Bacon (1955) 107 copies

Novum Organum, With Other Parts of The Great Instauration (1994) 86 copies

The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis (1906) 86 copies

Francis Bacon : A Selection of His Works (1965) 84 copies

Friendship (1899) 78 copies

The Works of Francis Bacon (1929) 64 copies

Der utopische Staat : Morus: Utopia + Campanella: Sonnenstaat + Bacon: Neu-Atlantis (1964) — Author — 42 copies

Ideal Commonwealths (1885) — Contributor — 40 copies

The New Atlantis and The City of the Sun: Two Classic Utopias (2003) 39 copies

FRANCIS BACON: Essays, Advancement of Learning, New Atlantis, and Other Pieces. (1937) 38 copies

The Wisdom of the Ancients (1968) 31 copies

Great Instauration (1620) 23 copies

Advancement of learning and Novum organum (1899) 23 copies

Bacon's Essays with Memoirs and Notes (1899) 22 copies

The Complete Essays of Francis Bacon including the New Atlantis and Novum Organum (1963) 21 copies

The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon Including also his Apophtbegms, Elegant Sentences and Wisdom… (2007) 18 copies

De la sabiduría egoísta (2012) 17 copies

Selected Essays of Francis Bacon (1948) 17 copies

Bacon (1995) 15 copies

The Works of Francis Bacon, the Wisdom of the Ancients and Other Essays (1932) 14 copies

An Advertisement Touching a Holy War (2000) 14 copies

Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients (1887) 14 copies

The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis. Preface Thomas Case. (1951) 13 copies

Famous Utopias: Being the Complete Text of Rousseau's Social Contract, More's Utopia, Bacon's New… (1940) 13 copies

Great Instauration and the Novum Organum (1996) 13 copies

Matkoja Utopiaan : Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon & David Hume (2002) 12 copies

Of gardens (1902) 11 copies

The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, ... methodized, and made English, from the originals, ... (1977) 11 copies

Sylva Sylvarum: or a Natural History in Ten Centuries (1996) 11 copies

New Atlantis and The City of the Sun: Two Classic Utopias (Dover Thrift Editions) (2018) 11 copies

Over liefde, de dood en het leven een keuze uit de Essays (2005) 10 copies

Teoría del cielo (1989) 10 copies

The Wisdom of the Ancients and New Atlantis (1886) 10 copies

The works of Francis Bacon;: The wisdom of the ancients and other essays 9 copies

Saggi (1995) 9 copies

Novum organum aforismos sobre la interpretación de la naturaleza y el reino del hombre (1620) 9 copies

The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil & Advancement of Learning. (1906) 9 copies

Essays ; Advancement of learning ; New Atlantis (1982) 9 copies

The Great Books Third Year - Volume Six: Novum Organum, Book 1; and Of Civil Government (1955) 8 copies

The Essays of Lord Bacon: Including Ornamental Rationalia, of Elegant Sentences: Short Notes For Civil Conversation:… (1889) 8 copies

The Proficience and Advancement of Learning (2010) 8 copies

Francis Bacon Selections with Essays By MacAulay & S.R. Gardiner (1922) 8 copies

The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon (1852) 7 copies

Delphi Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eight Book 21) (2017) 7 copies

Novum Organum 'New Method' (2012) 7 copies

The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum (1853) 7 copies

Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (2007) 7 copies

New Atlantis Continued (1985) 7 copies

The Essays; The Wisdom of the Ancients; and The New Atlantis (1907) 7 copies

Truth 6 copies

Essaies. Religious meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion — Author — 6 copies

Novum organum: Book 1 (1949) 6 copies

Francis Bacon: The Complete Works (Centaur Classics) (2015) 6 copies

Os pensadores: Novum Organum (2000) 6 copies

Novum organum, ou, Verdadeiras indicações acerca da interpretação da natureza ; Nova Atlântida. 5 copies

The Instauratio Magna: Last Writings (The Oxford Francis Bacon) (2000) 5 copies

Tragedy of Anne Boleyn (2003) 5 copies

The elements of the common lawes of England (2002) 5 copies

The works of Francis Bacon vol.3 (2019) 5 copies

The works of Francis Bacon vol.7 (2011) 5 copies

Resuscitatio, or, bringing into publick light severall pieces, of the works, civil, historical, & theological, hitherto… 4 copies

Aforismen over de interpretatie van de natuur en het rijk van de mens (2006) 4 copies

Seçme Aforizmalar (2008) 4 copies

Bacon's Essays with Annotations 4 copies

Essays and ancient fables of Francis Bacon (1932) 4 copies

La nueva Atlántida (2010) 4 copies

Selections (1958) 4 copies

Essays and Other Writings 4 copies

A harmony of the essays, etc. of Francis Bacon : Viscount St Alban, Baron Verulam, etc. 4 copies

Cette part de reve que chacun porte en soi (2013) 4 copies

The philosophical works of Francis Bacon reprinted from the texts and translations (2011) 4 copies

Scritti filosofici (2009) 4 copies

The two books of Francis Bacon: Of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and human (1970) 4 copies

Über die Würde und den Fortgang der Wissenschaften 3 copies

The History of the Reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI and Queen Mary (2012) 3 copies

Selected Essays of Sir Francis Bacon (1943) 3 copies

The works of Francis Bacon vol.10 (2017) 3 copies

The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (1996) 3 copies

Veritas the Harvard Classics (1969) 3 copies

Philosophical studies, c. 1611-c. 1619 (1996) 3 copies

Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera omnia quatuor voluminibus comprehensa : hactenus edita, ad… 3 copies

Francis Bacon; selections 3 copies

A declaration of the demeanor and cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, aswell in his voyage, as in, and sithence his… 3 copies

Dei principi e delle origini secondo le favole di Cupido e del Cielo ovvero la filosofia di Parmenide e di Telesio e… (2005) 3 copies

The works of Francis Bacon vol.11 (2022) 3 copies

Nova Atlântida - A Grande Instauração 3 copies

On Gardens, Two Essays (Langham Booklets) 3 copies

Esszék avagy tanácsok az okos és erkölcsös életre (1987) 3 copies

The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon, Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis,… (2005) 2 copies

The charge of Sir Francis Bacon touching duells 2 copies

Opere filosofiche 2 copies

Apoftegme (1894) 2 copies

Classic Club Library Collection (7) (1942) 2 copies

Bacon is Shake-Speare Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (2012) 2 copies

The Advancement of Learning, The New Organon, and The New Atlantis (2017) 2 copies

The Complete Francis Bacon Collection (2016) 2 copies

Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis. Preface By Thomas Case [World's Classics XCIII] 2 copies

Utopía - La Nueva Atlántida (2010) 2 copies

The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the… 2 copies

The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical Works, Vol. II 2 copies

The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the Philosophical Works, Vol. I 2 copies

The works of Francis Bacon vol.2 (2011) 2 copies

Francis Bacon. The great instauration 2 copies

Letters, memoirs, parliamentary affairs, state paper, &c. : with some curious pieces in law and philosophy 2 copies

The two bookes of Sr Francis Bacon, : of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and humane 2 copies

Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy (1996) 2 copies

Francisci Baconi ... Opera omnia, quae extant philosophica, moralia politica, historica : in quibus complures alii… 2 copies

Sevgi Üstüne (2018) 2 copies

Letters And Remains Of The Lord Chancellor Bacon (1734) (2010) 2 copies

La sabiduría de los antiguos (2014) 2 copies

Sacred meditations (2016) 2 copies

Neues Organon. Teilband 2 (1990) 2 copies

Neues Organon. Teilband 1 (1990) 2 copies

The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon 2 copies

Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum and New Atlantis 2 copies

Progresso do Conhecimento, O 2 copies

De sapientia veterum liber 2 copies

Bacon the Advancement of learning Everymans Library 719 (1965) 2 copies

The works of Francis Bacon : Popular edition Vol. 1, Philosophical writings (1878) 2 copies

La Nuova Atlantide e altri scritti 2 copies

Essays and apothegms of Francis, Lord Bacon 2 copies

Letters of S[i]r Francis Bacon ... Written During the Reign of King James the First 1702 [Hardcover] (2015) 2 copies

The personal poems of Francis Bacon (Our Shakespeare) the son of Queen Elizabeth 2 copies

Oeuvres philosophiques, morales et politiques 2 copies

The historie of life and death (1977) 2 copies

gardens and friendship 2 copies

Per il progresso della scienza : "Cogitata et visa" ed estratti dal "De augmentis scientiarum" 2 copies

Love & Marriage 2 copies

Certain miscellany works of the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban (1629) 2 copies

Sylva Sylvarum, Hist. Naturalis, Novus Atlas 2 copies

Collotype facsimile & type transcript of an Elizabethan manuscript preserved at Alnwick castle, Northumberland 2 copies

Baconiana. Or Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans; : in… 2 copies

English Works of Francis Bacon Volume I (1905) 2 copies

The Instauratio Magna Part II: Novum Organum and Associated Texts (|c OET |t Oxford English Texts) (Pt. 2) (2004) 2 copies

Empirismo e rinnovamento del sapere umano (1981) 1 copy

Ensaistas Ingleses - Classicos Jackson - Volume XXVII 1 copy

The Sydney Edition of Bacon's Essays ( Limited Edition to 30 copies in Vellum ) (1912) 1 copy

On gardens (1989) 1 copy

De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum, Libri IX. Ad Regem Suum 1 copy

Francis Bacon: Novum Organum; Nova Atlãntida 1 copy

The Truth 1 copy

Secme Aforizmalar - Hasan Ali Yucel Klasikleri (2012) 1 copy

Sur le prolongement de la vie et les moyens de mourir (2002) 1 copy

The physical and metaphysical works of Lord Bacon : including the "Advancement of learning and novum organum" 1 copy

The Novum organon 1 copy

Scritti filosofici (2016) 1 copy

The Harvard Classic, Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantic; Areopagitica nad Tractate on Education; Religio… 1 copy

Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients 1 copy

Dijet e të Lashtëve 1 copy

A Kind of Wild Justice 1 copy

Paradise Lost and Other Poems (Classic Club Library Collection) 1 copy

Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural Hstory, in Ten Centuries 1 copy

Nowa Atlantyda i Z Wielkiej Odnowy (1995) 1 copy

The works of Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, ... In three volumes. 1 copy

Collection of Apophthegms New and Old (1994) 1 copy

La nuova logica: libro I 1 copy

Opera Omnia 1 copy

XXIV Essays (1943) 1 copy

De la dignité et de l'accroissement des sciences 1 copy

Istoriia pravleniia Korolia Genrikha VII (1990) 1 copy

De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum T. 2 [...] 1 copy

De Verulamio scripta. In naturali et universali philosophia 1 copy

Letters and remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon. Collected by Robert Stephens, Esq; ... (2010) 1 copy

Novum Organum: Book One. The New Experimental Philosophy 1 copy

Novum Organum. Uomo e Natura. Scritti filosofici 1 copy

Os Pensadores: Bacon 1 copy

Vida e Obra 1 copy

Bacon: Selected Essays 1 copy

The Great Instauration; Leviathan; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1 copy

Of Judicature (in Law as Lit) 1 copy

Keys for Deciphering the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon (2003) 1 copy

Opere filosofiche. Vol. I 1 copy

Bacone 1 copy

Preface to The Maxims of the Law (in Law as Lit) 1 copy

Letters, memoirs, parliamentary affairs, state papers, &c. With some curious pieces in law and philosophy. Publish'd… 1 copy

Uomo e natura (1994) 1 copy

Bacon's essays and historical works 1 copy

Bacon's Essays : A selection 1 copy

God almighty first planted a garden 1 copy

Filosofiset mietelmät 1 copy

Francis Bacon: The New Organon And Related Writings. (1960) 1 copy

Essays - 1st edition (1597), The Advancement and Proficience of learning Divine and Human (1605), Essays - 2nd edition… 1 copy

Coleção Os Pensadores: Novum organum ou Verdadeiras indicações acerca da interpretação da natureza/Nova… 1 copy

Du progrès et de la promotion des savoirs 1 copy

Selected Writings : Essays; Advancement of Learning; New Atlantis 1 copy

An account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon. Extracted from the Edition of His Occasional Writings 1 copy

Pensadores: Novum Organum 1 copy

Francisci Baconi ... De Verulamio De Dignitate Et Augmentis Scientiarum, Volume 2... (Latin Edition) (2012) 1 copy

The Effayes or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam Viscount Saint Alban (1972) 1 copy

On Books and Studies 1 copy

The charge of sir Francis Bacon ... touching duells, vpon an information in the Star-chamber against Priest and Wright.… 1 copy

Bacone [Opere di] 1 copy

Il Nuovo Organo: libro primo 1 copy

Bacone vol.1 1 copy

The reading upon the statute of uses of Francis Bacon 1 copy

The New Atlantis [Short Story] 1 copy

Essays Civil and Moral, Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, etc 1 copy

Bacone vol.2 1 copy

Select tracts relating to colonies : consisting of I. An essay on plantations, by Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of… 1 copy

Opere filosofiche. Vol. II 1 copy

Lord Bacon's Life & Essays with Boyd's Notes. English Prose Classics 1 copy

Utopicheskii roman 16- 17 vekov. 1 copy

Ten Volume Set The Works of Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam and Lord High Chancellor of England (1819) 1 copy

Of Plantations (2006) 1 copy

Nová Atlantida a Eseje 1 copy

The learned reading of Sir Francis Bacon, one of her Majesties learned counsell at law, upon the Statute of Uses: :… 1 copy

Franc. Baconis De Verulamio, Summi Angliæ Cancellarij, Novum Organum Scientiarum 1 copy

Scrinia Ceciliana: mysteries of state & government: in letters of the late famous Lord Burghley, and other grand… 1 copy

Avgmentis Scientiarvm 1 copy

Sylva Sylvarum; Or a Natural History, in Ten Centuries: Whereunto Is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental… (2012) 1 copy

The Effays or Counsels Civill & Morall of Francis (1980) 1 copy

Cases of treason. 1 copy

A speech delivered by Sir Francis Bacon, : in the lower House of Parliament quinto Iacobi, concerning the article of… 1 copy

Cassell's National Library, Wisdom of the Ancients and New Atlantis, Vol I No 16 May 15, 1886. (1886) 1 copy

Franc. Baconi de Verulamio Historia regni Henrici Septimi, Angli©Œ Regis : opus vere politicum 1 copy

Certaine considerations touching the better pacification and edification of the Church of England 1 copy

Scritti filosofici (1975) 1 copy

Fr. Baconis de Verulamio Sylva sylvarum, sive, Hist. naturalis ; et Novus Atlas 1 copy

Novum Organum: Annotated Edition (2015) 1 copy

Francis Bacon on Parents and Children, Marriage and Single Life, and Friendship (Illustrated) (2015) 1 copy

Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Francis Bacon (2002-10-24) (1656) 1 copy

Cele doua carti despre excelenta si progresul cunoasterii divine si umane 1 copy

The Oxford Francis Bacon VIII: The Historie of the raigne of King Henry the seventh and other works of the 1620s (2012) 1 copy

The works of Francis Bacon : Popular edition based upon the complete edition of James Spedding, Robert Rawley Williams… 1 copy

Selected Writings of Sir Francis Bacon 1 copy

La brutalità delle cose 1 copy

A preparatory to the history natural & experimental 1 copy

Philosophical Works 1 copy

Sermones Fideles 1 copy

Utopias del renacimiento 1 copy

Scritti politici, giuridici e storici 1 copy

Dzieło większe tom II 1 copy

Dzieło większe tom I 1 copy

The Oxford Francis Bacon, Volume XII: The Instauratio Magna: Part III: Historia Naturalis and Historia Vitæ:… (2007) 1 copy

The Essays Or Counsels Civil And Moral With The Wisdom Of The Ancients 1 copy

Come tenere un giardino (2014) 1 copy

The letters and the life of Francis Bacon including all his occasional works, namely letters, speeches, tracts, state… 1 copy

The advancement of learning. Book I. With notes by F.G. Selby (2010) 1 copy

Fr. Baconi de Verulamio Sermones fideles, ethici, politici, oeconomici, sive, Interiora rerum : accedunt Faber… 1 copy

Le "Valerius Terminus" (de l'interprétation de la nature) (1986) 1 copy

Indicaciones relativas a la interpretación de la naturaleza 1 copy

Complete Works of Francis Bacon (2013) 1 copy

The New Atlantis: An Incomplete Work by Francis Bacon (2016) 1 copy

A Selection of His Works 1 copy

Bacon's Essays with and introduction by William H. Hudson 1 copy

Bacons essays including his Moral And Historical Works 1 copy

Essai d'un traité sur la justice universelle ou les sources du droit, suivi de quelques écrits juridiques (2006) 1 copy

The naturall and experimental history of winds, &c. 1 copy

Of Usury (2006) 1 copy

Of Riches (2006) 1 copy

SELECTED WRITINGS OF SIR FRANCIS BACON Franklin Library 1 copy

The Library of Alchemy 1 copy

Bacon Selections (The Modern Student's Library Philosophy series) (1928) 1 copy

Francis Bacon. Da Proficiência E O Avanco Do Conhecimento Humano (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2006) 1 copy

De Verulamio Sermones Fideles, Ethici, Politici, Oeconomici sive Interiora Rerum. Accedunt Faber Fortunae Colores Boni… 1 copy

Verulamiana or Opinions on Men, Manners, Literature, Politics and Theology (1803) 1 copy

Histoire du regne de Henry VII, roy d'Angleterre 1 copy

Bacon: Selected Writings (Essays, Advancement of Learning, New Atlantis) (1982) 1 copy

The Complete Works (2015) 1 copy

Of Fortune - Pamphlet (2006) 1 copy

The Works Of Francis Bacon, Volume V: Translations Of the Philosophical Works, Volume II 1 copy

The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England; :… 1 copy

The works of Lord Bacon 1 copy

Life (The Complete Harvard Classics Collection, vol 40) (KINDLE) 1 copy

Peigen lun ren sheng : shang xi = Francis Bacon essays (2005) 1 copy

Of the advancement and proficience of learning or the partitions of sciences IX bookes. Written in Latin by the most… 1 copy

Promus Of Formularies And Elegancies (2010) 1 copy

Bacon: Essays I.-XX. Edited by A. F. Watt (University Tutorial Series.) (1904) 1 copy

Bacon (Plain Texts from Key Thinkers) (1998) 1 copy

The works of Lord Bacon : with an introductory essay, and a portrait 1 copy

The World's Great Classics, Volume 22. Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum 1 copy

History naturall and experimentall, of life and death. Or Of the prolongation of life. / Written in Latine by the Right… 1 copy

Certaine miscellany works of the Right Honourable, Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. 1 copy

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Bacon's Essays (Essays, Civil And Moral; The Advancement Of Learning, Novum Organum,The Great Instauration, The Wisdom… 1 copy

A Conference of Pleasure, composed for some festive occasion about the year 1592 ... Edited, from a manuscript… 1 copy

Letters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Francis Bacon, Lord Viscount St. Alban, Lord Chancellor of England 1 copy

Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis S. Albani ... Opera omnia quae extant, philosophica, moralia,… 1 copy

Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vicecomitis Sancti Albani, Magni Angliae Cancellarii, Opera omnia, quatuor… 1 copy

History of the reign of King Henry VII. With notes by J. Rawson Lumby; (2010) 1 copy

Opere filosofiche ( 2 Vols) 1 copy

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Other names: Bacon, Sir Francis, Viscount St Alban
Lord Verulam
Bacon, Sir Francis
Birthdate: 1561-01-22
Date of death: 1626-04-09
Burial location: St. Michael's Church, St. Albans, England, UK
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: London, England
Place of death: Highgate, London, England
Cause of death: pneumonia
Frozen food experimentation (supposedly)
Places of residence: London, England
Education: Gray's Inn, London, England
University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
University of Poitiers
Occupations: philosopher
politician
jurist
scientist
Relationships: Bacon, Anne Cooke (mother)
Awards and honors: Knight Bachelor
Peerage
Queen's Counsel

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The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

A utopian society, designed by a philosopher.

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mykl-s | 14 other reviews | Aug 13, 2023 |

Essays and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

This can be a challenging read given the writing style of the time. Bacon was a genius for his time and the number of classical historical references woven in can add to the challenge. To do the Essays justice, will need to reread them.

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kropferama | 2 other reviews | Jan 1, 2023 |

New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Seminal; of its time and a model for subsequent utopian writing.

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Complete Essays (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Francis Bacon

Os ensaios se tornaram famosos na época, mas ao menos que se tenha um interesse específico pelo renascimento e o que um intelectual inglês do século XVI teria a dizer sobre a vida em geral (o intelectual como aquele que fala de tudo um pouco), seu próprio livro acaba caindo na categoria mais baixa de sua categorização sobre livros, os conselhos e ponderações entram por um ouvido e saem pelo outro. O estilo não ajuda porque, em que pese a elegância, ela ainda assim serve a um conteúdo sem pregnância.… (more)

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