THE ATHENAEUMThe City of the SunTommaso Campanella
Philosophy
The City of the Sun
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA Genoese sea captain tells a Knight Hospitaller of a city on an island beyond the Indian Ocean, built in seven rings, where everything is held in common and the walls are painted with all the knowledge of the world. Campanella, a Dominican friar, wrote it in 1602 in a prison in Naples, where he spent twenty-seven years. It is a utopia by a man who had every reason to want one.
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- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2816. In the public domain in the United States.