Thomas Morus
Sanctus Thomas Morus (Anglice Thomas More) fuit Anglicus causidicus, eques, inclytae civitatis Londinensis civis et Vicecomes, Angliae regni Cancellarius, Utopiae auctor, vir civilis, doctus et politicus, humanista, amicus Erasmo, amabilis pater, sanctus et martyr, "homo omnium horarum."

Vita 
Londinii die 7 Februarii 1477/1478 spectabili familia Ioanni et Agne Moro natus. Adulescens (circa 1489-1491) Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, Ioanni scilicet Morton qui Cancellarii Regni sustinebat partes, inservivit. Oxonii (circa 1491-1493) dein ac Londinii (circa 1493-1495, post 1496-circa 1501) iuridiciali disciplinae operam dedit studia sua in ampliorem humani cultus provinciam proferendo, speciatim in theologiam inque aetatis classicae litteras. Palaeograecum sermonem edidicit atque commercium habuit ac necessitudinem cum praeclaris artium renascentium fautoribus, in quibus Erasmus Desiderius Roterodamus (ab anno 1499) recensetur. 

"ita pro incredibili morum suauitate facilitateque cum omnibus omnium horarum hominem agere et potes et gaudes,"  Opus epistolarum 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.

"laicorum hominum decus et ornamentum." - Pius XI

Iussu Henrico VIII supplicio punitus est 6 Iulii anno 1535. Morus iudicio iniquo capite circumventus cum Iohanne 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 
 Litterae Apostolicae motu proprio datae, 31.X.2000, quibus sanctus Thomas Morus gubernatorum politicorum virorum ac mulierum proclamatur patronus
 Opus epistolarum 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 

 The history of king Richard the thirde 1513
 Thomae Mori 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 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, "The Life of Sir Thomas More" (written by More's son-in-law ca. 1555, but first printed in 1626)
 Princesse de Craon, Thomas Morus, Lord Chancelier du Royaume d'Angleterre au XVIe siècle (First edition in French, 1832/1833 - First edition in Dutch 1839/1840)

Bibliographia 
 Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More (1999)
 Paloma Castillo Martinez, Tommaso Moro il primato della coscienza, Paoline, Milano, 2010
 Jonathan Jones, "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  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

 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
 More and The History of Richard III
  Litterae Apostolicae motu proprio datae, 31.X.2000, quibus sanctus Thomas Morus gubernatorum politicorum virorum ac mulierum proclamatur patronus
 Thomas More et Utopia a  Carolo Kautsky
 ''Utopia apud Marxists.org

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Mortui 1535
Auctores Latini Renascentiae
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Erasmus
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