The City of the Sun (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tommaso Campanella
- First Published: 1623
- Type of Work: Utopian
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Europe or Europeans, Seventeenth century, Government, Italy or Italians, Renaissance, Middle Ages, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Utopias, Cities or towns, Religious life
- Locales: Islands, Utopias
Critical Evaluation:
Tommaso Campanella composed The City of the Sun in Italian in 1602, as La Città del Sole. It was not until he translated it, with significant changes, into Latin, still the language of the learned, that it was published in 1623. The Italian version is generally regarded as truer to Campanella’s thought.
The work is very much a product of its time and Campanella’s life. The scientific worldview—that nature can be known by observing the actual things of this world—was developing, but the medieval view was still powerful. A member...
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