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| | Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World Canadian Journal of History - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Campanella (1568-1639) is well known in Italy as the dominant Italian intellectual figure between Marsilio Ficino in the fifteenth century and Giambattista Vico in the eighteenth, and his two major philosophical works, The City of the Sun and the Metaphysics have long received critical attention from students of Italian philosophy and literature. |
 | | Campanella desperately and tirelessly strove to understand and pass judgment on the theories of Galilean science and the modem centralizing, absolutist nation-state, but he did by using the syncretic, imperialist, and apocalyptic intellectual tools of a bygone era. |
 | | Campanella arrived in Paris at the same time that Marin Mersenne was establishing an empiricist program directed against the particularly Renaissance strains of philosophy, such as animism, Hermeticism, and the occult, that were dominant in the thought of Campanella, Giordano Bruno, and Telesio. |
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