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Campanella, Tommaso

Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campa. A Bilingual Edition / Edited, translated and annotated by Sherry Roush.

University of Chicago Press., 19.04.2011.,

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ISBN
9780226092058
Author
Campanella, Tommaso
Publishers
University of Chicago Press., 19.04.2011.
Size
XI, 247 Seiten / p. 15,2 x 2,0 x 22,9 cm, Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket.
Dust jacket
No
Languages
English
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - 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. ISBN 9780226092058