Gioacchino da Fiore: millennio e utopia

The article aims to show the forms in which Joachimism anticipates modern utopia by inheriting the ancient forms of Christian «utopia». In this comparison, modern utopia separates itself from that prophetic spirit that still resided in the Christian cosmos while, at the same time, representing a figure of thought and a form of life of that «penultimate» time in which the «possible» is still conceived of as achievable, in comparison with a pre-ordered and unmodifiable present.