Book I, opening dialogue in Antwerp
The framing device that establishes the fictional narrator and lends the work its air of credible reportage.
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From Utopia by Thomas More
More frames the work by meeting Peter Giles in Antwerp, who introduces the philosophical traveler Raphael Hythloday, whose name means 'speaker of nonsense'—an early hint at the work's ironic tone.
Book I, Giles describes Raphael as a Portuguese sailor who voyaged with Amerigo Vespucci
Connects Utopia to the age of New World discovery and lends verisimilitude.
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