Front Page Authors (by Period) Tommaso Campanella

Tommaso Campanella

1568 - 1639

About the Author

Campanella was a Dominican monk who was a critic of Aristotelianism, an astrologer, and an advocate of a society based on the community of goods. He served 27 years in prison for his views where he wrote his most famous work City of the Sun.

In The Library:

• author: Ideal Empires and Republics. Rousseau’s Social Contract, More’s Utopia, Bacon’s New Atlantis, Campanella’s City of the Sun (1901)