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A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568โ1639) 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 PlatoโsRepublic, in which he prophesies a vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy; and his well-meaningDefense of Galileo, which may have done Galileo more harm than good because of Campanellaโs previous conviction for heresy.
But Campanellaโs 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 Campanellaโs best and most idiosyncratic poems, which are masterpieces of sixteenth-century Italian lyrics, displaying a questing mind of great, if unorthodox, brilliance, and showing Campanellaโs passionate belief in the intrinsic harmony between the sacred and secular.
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