A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his heterodox views. He is best known today for two works: The City of the Sun, a dialogue inspired by Plato’s Republic, in which he prophesies a vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy; and his well-meaning Defense of Galileo, which may have done Galileo more harm than good because of Campanella’s previous conviction for heresy. But Campanella’s philosophical poems are where his most forceful and undiluted ideas reside. His poetry is where his faith in observable and experimental sciences, his astrological and occult wisdom, his ideas about deism, his anti-Aristotelianism, and his calls for religious and secular reform most put him at odds with both civil and church authorities. For this volume, Sherry Roush has selected Campanella’s best and most idiosyncratic poems, which are masterpieces of sixteenth-century Italian lyrics, displaying a questing mind of great, if unorthodox, brilliance, and showing Campanella’s passionate belief in the intrinsic harmony between the sacred and secular.
Author(s): Tommaso Campanella; Edited, Translated, and Annotated by Sherry Roush
Edition: Bilingual
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 260
Tags: Библиотека;Зарубежная литература;На английском языке;
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
On the Notational System of This Volume......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Selected Philosophical Poems by Settimontano Squilla from His Books Titled “The Canticle” with His Self-Commentary......Page 52
1. Proem......Page 54
3. Natural Faith of the True Wise Man......Page 56
4. On the World and Its Parts......Page 66
6. The Way to Philosophize......Page 68
7. Warning to All Nations......Page 70
8. On the Roots of the World’s Great Evils......Page 72
9. Stupendous Discovery Against Self- Love......Page 74
10. Parallel between Self- and Communal Love......Page 76
11. The Reason Why Loving God, Supreme Good, Less than Other Goods is Ignorance......Page 78
13. Unarmed Intellect in Ancient Wise Men WasSubjected to the Arms of Madmen......Page 80
14. Human Beings are the Plaything of God and the Angels......Page 82
18. To Christ, Our Lord......Page 84
21. In Christ’s Tomb......Page 86
23. To the Prime Intellect: First Song
......Page 88
24. To the Prime Intellect: Second Song
......Page 94
25. To the Prime Intellect: Third Song......Page 102
26. Introduction to Love, True Love......Page 108
31. On the Metaphysical Highest Good
......Page 110
35. That the Evil Prince is Not the Mind of His Republic......Page 124
36. To the Italians Who Seek to Versify with Greek Fables......Page 126
44. On the Same [Against Sophists, Hypocrites, Heretics, and False Miracle Workers]......Page 134
49. Sonnet on the Same [on the “Our Father”]......Page 136
61. On Himself......Page 138
62. On Himself, When, etc.......Page 140
64. To His Peers......Page 142
65. Prayer to God......Page 144
71. Sonnet from the Caucasus......Page 146
72. Woeful Prophetic Prayer from the Depths of the Pit Where He Was Imprisoned
......Page 148
73. Three Orations in One Metaphysical Psalmody Joined Together: First Song......Page 154
74. Three Prayers in One Metaphysical Psalmody Joined Together: Second Song; On the Same Psalmody......Page 166
75. Three Prayers in One Metaphysical Psalmody Joined Together: Third Song; On the Same Psalmody......Page 178
80. Song to Father Berillo in Repentence, Desiring Confession, etc., Made from the Caucasus......Page 188
89. To the Sun During Springtime Out of the Desire for Warmth......Page 198
Annotations......Page 204
Bibliography......Page 240
Index of First Lines......Page 250
General Index......Page 254
