Note 62 — BACON AND “POESY”
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This always reminds me of The Tempest and its projected match between Ferdinand, the unsophisticated mind of man, and Miranda, symbol of the new method of nature study. Naples, the New City of the Tempest, would thus stand for the model city or state expected to spring up as a result of the New Method. The New Atlantis of Bacon was another state of this kind.