A global "cosmic" language, substituting for all dead European languages. In the first chapter Mantegazza predicted the First World War, with two sides fighting bloody, immense naval and ground battles and with "one million deaths in a single day" near Paris. After this war, all nations unite to abolish war (" a war that killed all wars") and the "United States of Europe was founded", with a single idiom and a single currency, engendering peace for the succeeding two millennia. After almost a century of dictatorial domination, socialist regimes were replaced by democratic ones. Besides predicting for the year 3000 things that would become reality less than 50 years later, Mantegazza was mistaken only a few times. One of the most peculiar errors, considering that he was a physician, was his judgment that the average longevity would be 60 years, and that medicine would abandon drugs, surgery and other forms of conventional therapy, focusing instead on changes in diet and life style (like functional medicine in the 21st century). Bibliography Mantegazza, P.: L'Anno 3000. Milano, 1897. (in Italian: Zipped RTF full text from Nigralatebra, or HTML full text with concordance from IntraText Digital Library).: Mantegazza, P.: The Year 3000. A Dream. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Nicoletta Pireddu. Transl. by David Jacobson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. References Pireddu, Nicoletta: Paolo Mantegazza. Fabulator of the Future in Mantegazza, P. The Year 3000. A Dream. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Nicoletta Pireddu. Transl. by David Jacobson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010: pp. 1–53. 1897 novels 1897 science fiction novels 19th-century Italian novels Italian science fiction novels Fiction set in the 30th century Utopian novels