Tommaso Campanella, Italian Philosopher and Poet(1568-1639)

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by Francesco Cozza

Just the Facts:

• Name: Tommaso Campanella
• Birth: September 5, 1568, Stignano (Kingdom of Sicily)
• Death: May 21, 1639, Paris, France
• Languages: Italian; Latin
• Who he was: Italian monk, philosopher, and poet who suffered twenty-seven years of imprisonment by the Inquisition for heresy; he wrote the utopian novel La città del Sole (The City of the Sun)
• Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 3); Bloom

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