Tommaso Campanella



Tommaso Campanella (5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639) was an Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.

Quotes

 * If You return to earth, come armed Lord, because enemies are preparing other crosses —not Turks, not Jews—but those of Your own kingdom
 * "To Jesus Christ", as cited in Roush, Sherry, 2011, Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella, University of Chicago Press, p. 18.


 * The world is the book where the eternal Wisdom wrote its own concepts
 * "Modo di filosofare".


 * 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. This is so, since I have begun...to read the book of God...the model according to which I correct the human books which have been copied badly and arbitrarily and without attention to the things that are written in the original book of the Universe.
 * "Letter of 1607", as cited by Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., 2012, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, p. 218.

About Campanella

 * [A]udacious Titan of the modern age, possessing essentially a combative intellect; a poet and philosopher militant, who stood alone making war upon the authority of Aristotle in science, of Machiavelli in statecraft, and of Petrarch in art.
 * John Addington Symonds, translator of Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarotti and Tommaso Campanella (London, 1878), as cited in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)