A cidade do sol

De Tommaso Campanella

Esta obra constrói, através de um diálogo entre interlocutores, a imagem de como seria a cidade ideal na visão do autor. Nesta cidade quem manda é um chefe espiritual e temporal chamado Sol assistido por três príncipes: Poder, Sabedoria e Amor. O autor tece seus comentários sobre a cidadania, leis, saúde, governo, guerras, educação, política, família, hábitos alimentares, arte de navegar, modos de vida e sobre o dia a dia nesta cidade ideal que se situa no inconsciente de nossa civilização.

• Idioma: Português
• Editora: Vozes de Bolso
• Data de lançamento: 28 de jun. de 2017
• ISBN: 9788532655295

Tommaso Campanella

Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was an Italian philosopher, poet, astrologer, and Dominican friar. Born Giovanni Domenico Campanella in Calabria, he was the son of a cobbler. At fourteen, he entered the Dominican Order and took the name Tommaso after Thomas Aquinas. His early studies in theology and philosophy led him to the empiricism of Bernardino Telesio, a prominent Italian scientist of the sixteenth century. By 1590, Campanella was studying astrology in Naples, where he gained a reputation for heterodoxy and faced persecution during the Roman Inquisition. Arrested in Padua in 1594, he spent several years in confinement at a Roman convent before earning his freedom and returning to his native Calabria. In 1599, he was imprisoned and tortured for his role in a conspiracy against Spanish rule in the town of Stilo. Campanella eventually confessed and was incarcerated in Naples for twenty-seven years, during which time he composed such works as The Monarchy in Spain (1600), Political Aphorisms (1601), and The City of the Sun (1602). This last title, originally written in Italian and later translated into Latin by the author, is considered an important example of utopian fiction in which Campanella describes the traditions and organization of an egalitarian society. Released from prison in 1626, he fled to France in 1634 when one of his followers was implicated in a new Calabrian conspiracy. His final years were spent in Paris, where he earned the support of King Louis XIII and was protected by Cardinal Richelieu.