Selected philosophical poems of Tommaso Campanella / edited, translated, and annotated by Sherry Roush.

Parallel text in English and Italian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.

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Acknowledgments; On the Notational System of This Volume; Introduction; Selected Philosophical Poems by Settimontano Squilla from His Books Titled "The Canticle" with His Self-Commentary; 1. Proem; 2. To the Poets; 3. Natural Faith of the True Wise Man; 4. On the World and Its Parts; 5. Immortal Soul; 6. The Way to Philosophize; 7. Warning to All Nations; 8. On the Roots of the World's Great Evils; 9. Stupendous Discovery Against Self- Love; 10. Parallel between Self- and Communal Love; 11. The Reason Why Loving God, Supreme Good, Less than Other Goods is Ignorance

12. Fortune of the Wise13. Unarmed Intellect in Ancient Wise Men WasSubjected to the Arms of Madmen; 14. Human Beings are the Plaything of God and the Angels; 17. One Is Not King Who Has a Kingdom, but RatherWho Knows How to Reign; 18. To Christ, Our Lord; 21. In Christ's Tomb; 23. To the Prime Intellect: First Song; 24. To the Prime Intellect: Second Song; 25. To the Prime Intellect: Third Song; 26. Introduction to Love, True Love; 27. Against Cupid; 31. On the Metaphysical Highest Good; 35. That the Evil Prince is Not the Mind of His Republic

36. To the Italians Who Seek to Versify with Greek Fables37. On Italy; 44. On the Same [Against Sophists, Hypocrites, Heretics, and False Miracle Workers]; 46. The "Our Father" Prayer of Jesus Christ; 49. Sonnet on the Same [on the "Our Father"]; 60. In Prison; 61. On Himself; 62. On Himself, When, etc.; 63. To Certain Offi cial Friends and Barons Who Accused Him of Too Much Knowledge or Too Little Prudence or Treachery; 64. To His Peers; 65. Prayer to God; 68. To Telesio of Cosenza; 71. Sonnet from the Caucasus; 72. Woeful Prophetic Prayer from the Depths of the Pit Where He Was Imprisoned

73. Three Orations in One Metaphysical Psalmody Joined Together: First Song74. Three Prayers in One Metaphysical Psalmody Joined Together: Second Song; On the Same Psalmody; 75. Three Prayers in One Metaphysical Psalmody Joined Together: Third Song; On the Same Psalmody; 80. Song to Father Berillo in Repentence, Desiring Confession, etc., Made from the Caucasus; 89. To the Sun During Springtime Out of the Desire for Warmth; Annotations; Bibliography; Index of First Lines; General Index

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 p.

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