biography
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Campanella, Tommaso
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pronunciation:
[kampanela]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1568–1639)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Stilo, S Italy. Entering the Dominican order in 1583, he taught at Rome and Naples. He evolved an empirical, anti-Scholastic philosophy, for which he was imprisoned by the Inquisition. He was arrested again in 1599 for heresy and conspiracy against Spanish rule, and was not finally released until 1626. From prison he wrote his famous utopian work, La Città del Sole (c.1602, City of the Sun). He eventually fled to Paris in 1634, as a protégé of Richelieu. |
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