Tommaso Campanella OP (Italian: [tomˈmaːzo kampaˈnɛlla]; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), [1] baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
Tommaso Campanella was an Italian philosopher and writer who sought to reconcile Renaissance humanism with Roman Catholic theology. He is best remembered for his socialistic work La città del sole (1602; “The City of the Sun”), written while he was a prisoner of the Spanish crown (1599–1626).
Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, 1568–Paris, 1639) was one of the most important philosophers of the late Renaissance. Although his best-known work today is the utopian text La città del Sole (The City of the Sun), his thought was extremely complex and engaged with all fields of learning.
La Campanella (Italian: the little bell) is the nickname given to the third of six Grandes études de Paganini (“Grand Paganini Études”), S. 141 (1851), composed by Franz Liszt.
Campanella presented his ideas in Philosophy Proven by the Senses (1591). In Campanella's system, everything that exists contains three parts that he calls primalities: power, knowledge, and love.
Tommaso Campanella ( – ), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, Counter-Reformation theologian, Renaissance magus, prophet, astrologer and poet. Campanella sought to arrange Renaissance humanism using Roman Catholic theology.
Campanella wrote on a wide range of subjects, from Telesian philsophy to political philosophy and astrology. In 1622 he published his Apologia pro Galileo ("Defense of Galileo") in which he defended the Copernican system and the separate paths of Scripture and nature to knowledge of the Creator.
The poetry Campanella wrote in prison is a significantly defiant human assertion of freedom against tyranny. From 1634, he lived in France under Royal patronage.