# Tommaso Campanella — The Story of Utopias character guide

> Tommaso Campanella in The Story of Utopias by Lewis Mumford.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Campanella

**First appearance:** 0003-the-story-of-utopias

## Who they are

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

## Relationships

### [Francis Bacon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/characters/francis_bacon)

_professional_

Bacon and Campanella are Renaissance utopian thinkers whose works ('New Atlantis' and 'City of the Sun') are frequently compared and contrasted.

### [Johann Valentin Andreae](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/characters/johann_valentin_andreae)

_professional_

Andreae and Campanella are Renaissance utopian authors whose works share allegorical and Christian humanist elements.

## In the story

### [The Story of Utopias](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/the-story-of-utopias)

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

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/v)

Similarly dismissed as unoriginal, echoing predecessors.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/i)

Author of the City of the Sun, a Calabrian monk whose utopia existed in manuscript before Andreae's Christianopolis.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/ii)

Mentioned alongside Bacon as a utopian of means, dreaming of powerful mechanical inventions.

### [Utopias](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_utopias_se/chapters/utopias)

Author of The City of the Sun (1637), a philosophical utopia.

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