Theological Studies, December 1st, 1998
TOMMASO CAMPANELLA AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD. By John M. Headley. Princeton: Princeton University, 1997. Pp. xxv + 399. $55.
This is a masterful, enormously stimulating, yet difficult volume, whose richness prevents a reviewer from doing justice to all its themes. The brilliant, idiosyncratic Dominican Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) spent much of his life in prisons of the Inquisition, including a 27-year stint in Naples from 1599 to 1626, because of his role in an abortive Calabrian rebellion against Spanish rule in 1599 and because of alleged heresy. The severity of his detentio...
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