A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his heterodox views. He is best known today for two works: The City of the Sun, a dialogue inspired by Plato’s Republic, in which he prophesies a vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy; and his well-meaning Defense of Galileo, which may have done Galileo more harm than good because of Campanella’s previous conviction for heresy.            But Campanella’s philosophical poems are where his most forceful and undiluted ideas reside. His poetry is where his faith in observable and experimental sciences, his astrological and occult wisdom, his ideas about deism, his anti-Aristotelianism, and his calls for religious and secular reform most put him at odds with both civil and church authorities. For this volume, Sherry Roush has selected Campanella’s best and most idiosyncratic poems, which are masterpieces of sixteenth-century Italian lyrics, displaying a questing mind of great, if unorthodox, brilliance, and showing Campanella’s passionate belief in the intrinsic harmony between the sacred and secular.

Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition

Literature & Fiction

Campanella, Tommaso

Poetry

University of Chicago Press

Among Renaissance utopias, The City of the Sun is perhaps second in importance only to More's more famous work. There are striking similarities between Campanella's utopia and More's, but also striking differences which reflect both changed historical circumstances and the highly original nature of Campanella's thought. La città del sole is one of many books written by Tommaso Campanella―philosopher, scientist, astrologer, and poet―while imprisoned in Naples for his part in rebellion against the Spanish and ecclesiastical authorities who ruled his native Calabria. This first faithful and complete English translation by Daniel J. Donno is presented opposite the critically established Itaion text, with essential explanatory notes and an introductory essay. Students of Italian culture, of the history of science, and of political, philosophical, and religious thought will welcome the publication of this authoritative edition of Campanella's best-known work.

The City of the Sun: A Poetical Dialogue (La Città del Sole: Dialogo Poetico) (Biblioteca Italiana) (Volume 2)

Donno, Daniel J.

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Ideal Commonwealths; Comprising: More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the Sun, and Harrington's Oceana.

Politics & Social Sciences

BACON, FRANCIS

More, Thomas, Sir, Saint

Harrington,James

Philosophy

Associated Faculty Pr Inc

Excerpt: ...and Pythagoras, they do not believe in the transmigration of souls, except in some cases by a distinct decree of God. They do not abstain from injuring an enemy of the republic and of religion, who is unworthy of pity. During the second month the army is reviewed, and every day there is practice of arms, either in the cavalry plain or within the walls. Nor are they ever without lectures on the science of war. They take care that the accounts of Moses, of Joshua, of David, of Judas Maccabaeus, of Caesar, of Alexander, of Scipio, of Hannibal, and other great soldiers should be read. And then each one gives his own opinion as to whether these generals acted well or ill, usefully or honorably, and then the teacher answers and says who are right. G.M. With whom do they wage war, and for what reasons, since they are so prosperous? Capt. Wars might never occur, nevertheless they are exercised in military tactics and in hunting, lest perchance they should become effeminate and unprepared for any emergency. Besides, there are four kingdoms in the island, which are very envious of their prosperity, for this reason that the people desire to live after the manner of the inhabitants of the City of the Sun, and to be under their rule rather than that of their own kings. Wherefore the State often makes war upon these because, being neighbors, they are usurpers and live impiously, since they have not an object of worship and do not observe the religion of other nations or of the Brahmins. And other nations of India, to which formerly they were subject, rise up as it were in rebellion, as also do the Taprobanese, whom they wanted to join them at first. The warriors of the City of the Sun, however, are always the victors. As soon as they suffered from insult or disgrace or plunder, or when their allies have been harassed, or a people have been oppressed by a tyrant of the State (for they are always the advocates of liberty), they go immediately to the Council for...

The City of the Sun

Journeyman Pr

Excerpt: ...remains for me:     Fain would my flesh abide; my soul would flee     Heavenward, for still she calls on me to go.     Blind is the world; and evil here below     O'erwhelms and triumphs over honesty:     The light is quenched; quenched too is bravery:     Lies reign, and truth hath ceased her face to show.     When will that day dawn, Lord, for which he waits     Who trusts in Thee? Lo, this prolonged delay     Destroys all hope and robs the soul of life.     Why streams the light from those celestial gates,     If death prevent the day of grace, and stay     Our souls for ever in the toils of strife? LXX. A PRAYER FOR STRENGTH. Carico d'anni. Burdened with years and full of sinfulness,     With evil custom grown inveterate,     Both deaths I dread that close before me wait,     Yet feed my heart on poisonous thoughts no less. No strength I find in mine own feebleness     To change or life or love or use or fate,     Unless Thy heavenly guidance come, though late,     Which only helps and stays our nothingness. 'Tis not enough, dear Lord, to make me yearn     For that celestial home, where yet my soul     May be new made, and not, as erst, of nought: Nay, ere Thou strip her mortal vestment, turn     My steps toward the steep ascent, that whole     And pure before Thy face she may be brought. LXXI. A PRAYER FOR PURIFICATION. Forse perchè d' altrui. Perchance that I might learn what pity is,     That I might laugh at erring men no more,     Secure in my own strength as heretofore,     My soul hath fallen from her state of bliss: Nor know I under any flag but this     How fighting I may 'scape those perils sore,     Or how survive the rout and horrid roar     Of adverse hosts, if I Thy succour miss. O flesh! O blood! O cross! O pain extreme!     By you may those foul sins be purified,     Wherein my fathers were, and I was born! Lo,...

Sonnets (English, Italian and Italian Edition)

Plutarch Pr

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De Libris Propriis Et Recta Ratione Studendi Syntagma (1642)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Campanellae Astrologicorum Libri VI (1629) (Latin Edition)

Poesie Filosofiche Di Tomaso Campanella (Italian Edition)

History

Nabu Press

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La Città Del Sole (Italian Edition)

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