Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
13 Facts About Tommaso Campanella
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Tommaso Campanella wrote his most significant works during this time, including The City of the Sun, a utopia describing an egalitarian theocratic society where property is held in common.
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Tommaso Campanella wrote his first work, Philosophia sensibus demonstrata, published in 1592, in defence of Telesio.
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Tommaso Campanella's aim was to establish a society based on the community of goods and wives, for on the basis of the prophecies of Joachim of Fiore and his own astrological observations, he foresaw the advent of the Age of the Spirit in the year 1600.
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Finally, Tommaso Campanella made a full confession and would have been put to death had he not feigned madness and set his cell on fire.
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Tommaso Campanella was tortured further, a total of seven times.
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Tommaso Campanella spent twenty-seven years imprisoned in Naples, in various fortresses.
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Tommaso Campanella defended Galileo Galilei in Galileo's first trial with his work The Defense of Galileo.
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In 1632, before Galileo's second trial, Tommaso Campanella wrote to Galileo:.
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Tommaso Campanella was finally released from prison in 1626, through Pope Urban VIII, who personally interceded on his behalf with Philip IV of Spain.
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Tommaso Campanella put into effect the natural magic practices described in his short treatise De siderali fato vitando.
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Tommaso Campanella lived for five years in Rome, where he was Urban's advisor in astrological matters.
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Tommaso Campanella's last work was a poem celebrating the birth of the future Louis XIV.