Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet (1568-1639)
A Dominican friar who spent 27 years in a Spanish prison cell writing utopian philosophy. Campanella sketched his vision of a perfect society — communal property, rule by priests — while the Inquisition kept him locked away for heresy and conspiracy.
Born Giovanni Domenico Campanella in 1568, he took vows as a Dominican and earned a reputation as a philosopher, theologian, and astrologer. The Roman Inquisition prosecuted him for heresy in 1594, confining him to house arrest for two years. In 1599 he was accused of plotting against Spanish rule in Calabria, tortured, and imprisoned. He remained behind bars for 27 years, during which he produced his most important work: The City of the Sun, a utopia imagining an egalitarian theocratic state where citizens share all property in common. He died in 1639.
Sourced, dated quotes from Tommaso Campanella
I learn more from the anatomy of an ant or a blade of grass...than from all the books which have been written since the beginning of time.
If You return to earth, come armed Lord,because enemies are preparing other crosses—not Turks, not Jews—but those of Your own kingdom
The world is the book where the eternal Wisdom wrote its own concepts
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