Acknowledgments
Introduction: Paolo Mantegazza, Fabulator of the Future
Nicoletta Pireddu 1. Paolo and Maria set out for Andropolis.
One evening in the Gulf of La Spezia.
2. From La Spezia to the ancient pyramids of Egypt. From the
pyramids to the Isle of Experiments. The Land of Equality.
Tyrannopolis. Turatia or the Socialist Republic. Logopolis. Other
governments and other social organizations.
3. Voyage to the Isle of Dynamo, one of the four great laboratories
of planetary force. The Historical Museum of our planet's
mechanical evolution. The three great historical epochs.
Macstrong's discovery and the pandynamo. The central distribution
office of cosmic forces.
4. Departure from Dynamo and arrival in Andropolis. The overall
look of the city. Its houses, their construction and architecture.
The plazas of Andropolis. The dynamics plant. The market. Arrest of
a young thief, and justice meted out.
5. Trip to the Government Palace. Forms of government and political
organization around the world in the year 3000. The four wings of
the Palace. Land, Health. School. Industry and Commerce. The Office
of Finance.
6. The Gymnasium of Andropolis.
7. The Palace of Schools. The primary school. The middle school.
The school of advanced studies. Lesson on the influence of passion
on the logic of thought.
8. Trip to Hygeia. The statue erected to the preeminent physicians
of antiquity. The anteroom of the sick. The divisions of Hygeia. A
lung doctor's visit to a tubercular patient. Card money in the year
3000. The Hygeians' department. Visit to newborns. Elimination of a
baby. A mother both pitiful and cruel.
9. The city of the dead at Andropolis. Dissolution of corpses.
Cremation. The siderophiles and embalmings. Sepulchers. The
Pantheon.
10. The Theaters of Andropolis and the Panopticon. A listing of
shows in the capital on April 26, 3000. A gala evening at the
Panopticon.
11. The Museum of Andropolis. The Arcade and the peripatetics. The
natural science wing. Possible humans. Analysis paired with
synthesis. The museum wing dedicated to human labor. Concentric
circles and centrifugal radii. The blot on the art-history map.
12. The City of God in Andropolis. The Temple of Hope. The church
of the Evangelists. The Temple of the Unknown God.
13. Maria's bad mood and Paolo's secret. A session of the
Andropolis Academy and the awarding of the cosmic prize. Fertile
marriage. Editor's Notes on the Text
Paolo Mantegazza (1831–1910) was a prominent Italian neurologist, physiologist, anthropologist, defender and correspondent of Darwin, and fiction writer. Nicoletta Pireddu is the director of the comparative literature program and an associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Georgetown University. She is the editor of Paolo Mantegazza’s Physiology of Love and Other Writings. David Jacobson translated Mantegazza’s Physiology of Love and Other Writings.
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