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Tommaso Campanella

Italian Dominican friar and author of The City of the Sun, a utopian work.

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Also known as Campanella

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Author of 'The City of the Sun,' a utopian work describing a theocratic and communal society.

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With Francis Bacon (professional): Bacon and Campanella are Renaissance utopian thinkers whose works ('New Atlantis' and 'City of the Sun') are frequently compared and contrasted. With Johann Valentin Andreae (professional): Andreae and Campanella are Renaissance utopian authors whose works share allegorical and Christian humanist elements.

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Francis Bacon
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The Story of Utopias
Author of 'The City of the Sun,' a utopian work describing a theocratic and communal society.
I
Described as a lonely monk whose City of the Sun seems a marriage of Plato's Republic and the Court of Montezuma, considered second-rate relative to Andreae.
How Bacon and Campanella, who have a great reputation as utopians, are little better than echoes of the men who went before them.
Similarly dismissed as unoriginal, echoing predecessors.
I
Author of the City of the Sun, a Calabrian monk whose utopia existed in manuscript before Andreae's Christianopolis.
II
Mentioned alongside Bacon as a utopian of means, dreaming of powerful mechanical inventions.
Utopias
Author of The City of the Sun (1637), a philosophical utopia.

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