Utopian Studies, January 1st, 1999
John M. Headley. Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997. xxv + 399 pp. $55.00.
THIS EXCELLENT STUDY of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) surveys almost his entire work. John M. Headley, professor of history at North Carolina at Chapel Hill, offers a comprehensive view of Campanella's writings, with emphasis on the period after 1599. Although this book is primarily an intellectual biography, Headley successfully integrates major themes in Campanella's writings with Italian and European trends in ideas and politics.
The book is in six parts. The fi...
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