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The City of the Sun
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A Genoese sea captain and a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller discuss the organization of a perfect city. Designed with an impregnable series of seven concentric walls, located in an ideal climate, and built on a hill, its people live in a society dedicated to communal values. The City of the Sun is a work of utopian fiction by Tommaso Campanella.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781513217444
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatEPUB
Format noteDRM Adobe
PublisherMint Editions
Publishing date12/10/2021
SeriesMint Editions (Scientific and Speculative Fiction)
Pages44 pages
LanguageEnglish
File size4187 Kbytes
Article no.10370187
CatalogsVC
Data source no.4591227
Product groupBelletristik
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Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was an Italian philosopher, poet, astrologer, and Dominican friar. Born Giovanni Domenico Campanella in Calabria, he was the son of a cobbler. At fourteen, he entered the Dominican Order and took the name Tommaso after Thomas Aquinas. His early studies in theology and philosophy led him to the empiricism of Bernardino Telesio, a prominent Italian scientist of the sixteenth century. By 1590, Campanella was studying astrology in Naples, where he gained a reputation for heterodoxy and faced persecution during the Roman Inquisition. Arrested in Padua in 1594, he spent several years in confinement at a Roman convent before earning his freedom and returning to his native Calabria. In 1599, he was imprisoned and tortured for his role in a conspiracy against Spanish rule in the town of Stilo. Campanella eventually confessed and was incarcerated in Naples for twenty-seven years, during which time he composed such works as The Monarchy in Spain (1600), Political Aphorisms (1601), and The City of the Sun (1602). This last title, originally written in Italian and later translated into Latin by the author, is considered an important example of utopian fiction in which Campanella describes the traditions and organization of an egalitarian society. Released from prison in 1626, he fled to France in 1634 when one of his followers was implicated in a new Calabrian conspiracy. His final years were spent in Paris, where he earned the support of King Louis XIII and was protected by Cardinal Richelieu.