CAMPANELLA, Tommaso

CAMPANELLA, Tommaso
(1568-1639)
   Italian philosopher, admitted into the Dominican order at the age of 15. Like Francis BACON he attacked the reliance of contemporary science on the authority of Aristotle, advocating observation and experiment as the proper routes to knowledge in Philosophia Sensibus Demonstrata (1591; in Latin). His important UTOPIA, Civitas Solis (1st MS 1602; 2nd MS 1612; 1623 in Latin; 3rd MS 1637; cut trans Henry Morley as The City of the Sun in Ideal Commonwealths, coll 1885, ed Morley) was written while he was imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition, accused of having led a revolt in his native Calabria, then under Spanish rule. The book describes a city with seven concentric circular walls which is ruled by a philosopher-king, the Hoh or Metaphysicus; property is held in common and the elements of science are inscribed on the walls for educational purposes; flying machines and ships without sails are mentioned in passing.
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   See also: CITIES; FANTASTIC VOYAGES; ITALY.

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