![]() ![]() “He was both man of action and Christian mystic,” Cuomo remarked, explaining More’s appeal. In the early years of his career, as a young lawyer, Cuomo had taken More as a personal model now a portrait of More hung on the wall of the governor’s office. But the event’s keynote speaker was not a scholar at all: it was, rather, the then-governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, who had been invited because of his longstanding interest in More and had, rather surprisingly, accepted. ![]() The conference brought together three scholars of More, including the editor of the new Cambridge edition of Utopia and the founder of the journal Moreana. IN 1985, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY held a conference on Thomas More’s Utopia, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of More’s death and the 50th anniversary of his canonization as a Catholic saint. ![]()
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