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Tommaso (Giovanni Domenico) Campanella: La Città de Sole: Dialogo Poetico

The City of the Sun: A Poetical Dialogue, Translated with introduction and notes by Daniel J. Donno, University of California Press, 1981 (), Text in English and Italian.

* 1568, Stilo, Calabria, Italy, † 1639, Paris, France

Charge: Heressy

Persecuted by the Church of Rome and the Spanish Monarchy

The original version of the City of Sun, written in Italian in 1602, did not appear in print until the first years of the 20th century. For a period it circulated in manuscript, and some fifteen copies have been located. Far better known was a Latin translation Campanella completed in 1613 at the request of a German admirer, Tobia Adami, who felt that in that form it would attract a larger audience. Entitled Civitas Solis, this version was published in Frankfurt in 1623. Under Campanella's own supervision it was reprinted in Paris in 1637 forming a small part of his voluminous Philosophia realis. [...] (introduction, p.19ff.)

Other prison writings by the author:

• Apologia Di Galileo Stenna Utet, Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, Torino, 1969 (1968) Originally, published in 1622