Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Campanella, Tomasso | Further Reading

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Abramowitz, Isidore. The Great Prisoners: The First Anthology of Literature Written in Prison. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1946, 879 p.

Views Campanella's City of the Sun as the yoking together of the medieval world of astrology and the new spirit of enquiry and experimentation.

Blodgett, Eleanor Dickenson. "Bacon's New Atlantis and Campanella's Civitas Solis: A Study in Relationships." PMLA XLVI, No. 3 (September 1931): 763-80.

Highlights the similarities between the two utopian texts and sees the differences as a product of the authors' differing life experiences.

Costa, Dennis. "Poetry and Gnosticism: The Poetica of Tommaso Campanella." Viator 15 (1984): 405-18.

Argues that Campanella's philosophy was heavily influenced by Gnosticism.

Cro, Stelio. "Tommaso...

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