Tommaso Campanella

thumb|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) External links Category:Poets from Italy Category:Philosophers from Italy Category:Theologians from Italy Category:1568 births Category:1639 deaths Category:Astrologers Category:People from Calabria