1. Visit to Antwerp and meeting with Pieter Gillis

    · Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands

    Visit to Antwerp and meeting with Pieter Gillis
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    More visited Antwerp during the 1515 embassy, where he met the civic secretary and humanist Pieter Gillis; the encounter became important to the conception of Utopia. The source places the encounter within More's 1515 diplomatic travels but does not provide a more precise date.

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