Daniel Defoe

Augusta Triumphans (Annotated) Daniel Defoe

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. Augusta Triumphans: Daniel Defoe's Way of Making London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe was first published on March 16, 1728. The fictional speaker in this booklet, Andrew Moreton, is a man in his sixties offering Suggestions for improving London. In particular, it encourages the establishment of a university, a music academy, a hospital for founders, and licensed institutions for the treatment of mental illness. Furthermore, it encourages the introduction of measures to prevent moral corruption and robbery on the street. Augusta Triumphans is part of a group of works that were issued under the nom-de-plume by Andrew Moreton. It also includes everyone's business, nobody's business (1725), the Protestant monastery (1726), the parish tyranny (1727) and second thoughts are the best (1729). They deal respectively with the high salary of servants, lack of respect for the elderly, corruption in parishes, and crime prevention.