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titulus=Martyr|
natus=Londinii [[7 Februarii]] 1477-78 |
mortuus=[[6 Iulii]] [[1535]]|
beatificatio=[[1886]]|
canonizatio=[[1935]]|
dies festae=22 Iunii|
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'''Thomas Morus''' ([[Anglice]] ''Thomas More'') fuit [[Anglia|Anglicus]] [[causidicus]], [[eques]], [[urbs|urbis]] [[Londinium|Londinensis]] civis et vicecomes, [[regnum Angliae|Angliae regni]] cancellarius, ''[[Utopia (Morus)|Utopiae]]'' [[auctor]], [[politicus]], [[humanista]], eruditus, amicus [[Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus|Erasmi]], [[sanctus]], et [[martyr]], "homo omnium horarum."<!--Quis dicit?-->

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

*"Ita pro incredibili morum suauitate facilitateque cum omnibus omnium horarum hominem agere et potes et gaudes."<ref>Opus epistolarum [[Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus|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'', in: Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, Vol. 4/3, ed. C. H. Miller (Amstelodamum-Novi Eboraci: North Holland Co., 1979) 67/18--68/1.</ref>
*"laicorum hominum decus et ornamentum." - [[Pius XI]].

Iussu [[Henricus VIII Angliae Rex|Henrico VIII]] [[poena capitalis|supplicio punitus]] est [[6 Iulii]] anno [[1535]]. Morus iudicio iniquo capite circumventus cum [[Iohannes Roffensis|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 ==
# [[Actus Apostolorum|Litterae Apostolicae]] motu proprio datae, 31.X.2000, quibus sanctus Thomas Morus gubernatorum politicorum virorum ac mulierum proclamatur patronus
# Opus epistolarum [[Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus|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 ==
[[Fasciculus:More famB 1280x-g0.jpg|thumb|upright=2|[[Familia Thomae Mori (pictura)|Familiam Thomae Mori]] post [[Ioannes Holpenius|Ioannem Holpenium]] pinxit [[Rolandus Lockey]]]]
* ''The history of king Richard the thirde'' 1513
* Thomae Mori ''[[Utopia (Morus)|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 [[Lingua Anglica|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, [http://www.bartleby.com/36/2/ "The Life of Sir Thomas More"] (written by More's son-in-law ''ca''. [[1555]], but first printed in [[1626]])
* Princesse de Craon, [http://www.roquade.nl/wwriters/work.asp?workID=3628 Thomas Morus, Lord Chancelier du Royaume d'Angleterre au XVIe siècle]{{Nexus deficitur|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (First edition in [[French (language)|French]], 1832/1833 - First edition in [[Dutch (language)|Dutch]] 1839/1840)

== Bibliographia ==
* [[Petrus Ackroyd|Peter Ackroyd]], ''The Life of Thomas More'' (1999)
* Paloma Castillo Martinez, ''Tommaso Moro'' il primato della coscienza, Paoline, Milano, 2010
* Jonathan Jones, "[http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/jan/29/wolf-hall-wrong-thomas-more-was-funny-feminist 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}} 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==
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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20120620162041/http://www.thomasmorestudies.org/library.html 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
* [http://www.richard111.com/sir_thomas_more.htm More and ''The History of Richard III'']
* ''[http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_20001031_thomas-more_lt.html  Litterae Apostolicae motu proprio datae, 31.X.2000, quibus sanctus Thomas Morus gubernatorum politicorum virorum ac mulierum proclamatur patronus]''
* ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1888/more/index.htm Thomas More et Utopia]'' a  [[Carolus Kautsky|Carolo Kautsky]]
* ''[http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/more/works/utopia/index.html Utopia] apud [[Marxists.org]]

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