In England they gave us Spenser's "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," and they affected, each in his own way, Sir Philip Sidney, and others of the circle of court writers of his time.

More's book was written in Latin, though there is an English translation almost contemporary.

He combines in himself the two strains that we found working in the Renaissance, for besides its origin in Plato, _Utopia_ owes not a little to the influence of the voyages of discovery.

In 1507 there was published a little book called an _Introduction to Cosmography_, which gave an account of the four voyages of Amerigo.

In the story of the fourth voyage it is narrated that twenty-four men were left in a fort near Cape Bahia.