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Tommaso Campanella The City of the Sun

Philosophie
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The City of the Sun is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella. It is an important early utopian work. The work was written shortly after Campanella's imprisonment for heresy and sedition. The book is presented as a dialogue between "a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain". Inspired by Plato's Republic and the description of Atlantis in Timaeus, it describes a theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common. It also resembles the City of Adocentyn in the Picatrix, an Arabic grimoire of astrological magic. In the final part of the work, Campanella prophesies —in the veiled language of astrology— that the Spanish kings, in alliance with the Pope, are destined to be the instruments of a Divine Plan: the final victory of the True Faith and its diffusion in the whole world. While one could argue that Campanella was simply thinking of the conquest of the New World, it seems that this prophecy should be interpreted in the light of a work written shortly before The City of the Sun, The Monarchy in Spain, in which Campanella exposes his vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy. [mehr]

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Tommaso Campanella The City of the Sun

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Tommaso Campanella OP (Italian: [tomˈmazo kampaˈnɛlla]; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was [mehr]

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Edgar Pangborn West Of The Sun

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Edgar Pangborn was born in New York City on February 25, 1909,[1] to Harry Levi Pangborn, an attorney and dictionary editor, and Georgia Wood Pangborn, a noted writer of supernatural fiction. Along with his older sister Mary, Edgar was homeschooled until 1919 and then educated at Brooklyn Friends School. He began music studies at Harvard University in 1924, when he was still only 15 years old, and left in 1926 without graduating. After that he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, but did not graduate from that school, either. On leaving he publicly abandoned music, shifting his creative focus to writing. His first novel, a mystery called A-100: A Mystery Story, was published under the pseudonym "Bruce Harrison" in 1930. It was not an auspicious or notably successful debut, and showed none of the emotional or stylistic characteristics that became the hallmark of his later work. [mehr]

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Jackson Gregory Daughter of the Sun

A Tale of Adventure

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Jackson Gregory (March 12, 1882 – June 12, 1943) was an American teacher, journalist, and writer. Jackson was [mehr]

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Edgar Pangborn West Of The Sun

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Edgar Pangborn was born in New York City on February 25, 1909,[1] to Harry Levi Pangborn, an attorney [mehr]

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Joseph A. Altsheler The Sun Of Quebec

A Story of a Great Crisis

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Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. His six series comprise a total of thirty novels, each containing an independent story. There are twenty-one non-series novels. He also authored short stories and non-fiction items. All fifty-one of Mr. Altsheler's novels and forty-eight of his short stories are in circulation today. Many of them are available in print and ebook formats. All ninety-nine are available for free online viewing on the World Wide Web. They can be easily located using any of today's popular search engines (try a Google search for 'Altsheler'). [mehr]

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