The Crescent and the City of the Sun: Islam and the Renaissance Utopia of Tommaso Campanella
The Crescent and the City of the Sun: Islam and the Renaissance Utopia of Tommaso Campanella
Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture
This lecture discusses a new interpretation of Tommaso Campanella's most famous work, the Città del sole, as well as the motivation for the anti-Spanish rebellion in 1599. Campanella, along with a number of writers during the Counter-Reformation, had a rather special interest in the Ottoman Empire. The Città del sole incorporates many features of the Ottoman society and Islamic practice into its idealised picture of a natural human existence.
Keywords: Tommaso Campanella, Città del sole, anti-Spanish rebellion, Counter-Reformation, Ottoman Empire, Islamic practice, natural human existence, idealised picture
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