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The City of the Sun (
Italian:
La città del Sole;
Latin:
Civitas Solis) is a philosophical work by the Italian
Dominican philosopher
Tommaso Campanella. It is an important early
utopian work.
The work was written in
Italian in
1602, shortly after Campanella's imprisonment for
heresy and
sedition. A
Latin version was written in
1613–
1614 and published in
Frankfurt in
1623.
The City of the Sun is presented as a
dialogue between "a Grandmaster of the
Knights Hospitaller and a
Genoese Sea-Captain". Inspired by
Plato's Republic and the description of
Atlantis in
Timaeus, it describes a
theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common. It also resembles the City of Adocentyn in the
Picatrix, an Arabic guide to magical town planning. In the final part of the work, Campanella prophesies — in the veiled language of astrology — that the
Spanish kings, in alliance with the
Pope, are destined to be the instruments of a Divine Plan: the final victory of the True Faith and its diffusion in the whole world. While one could argue that Campanella was simply thinking of the conquest of the
New World, it seems that this prophecy should be interpreted in the light of a work written shortly before
The City of the Sun,
The Monarchy in Spain, in which Campanella exposes his vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy.
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