Despite extensive study of the Galileo affair in recent years, there are still some important documents relating to the case which have received little attention in the English-speaking world. In his translation of Thomas Campanella's "Apologia pro Galileo," Richard J. Blackwell presents for the first time in English a reliable and highly readable translation of this important and neglected work. Campanella, the maverick Dominican, sought to head off the confrontation between Galileo and the theologians by defending Galileo's right to develop, debate, and publish his ideas freely. By making...

Tommaso Campanella: Der Sonnenstaat. Idee eines philosophischen Gemeinwesens Ein poetischer Dialog La Citta del Sole. Dialogo di Repubblica nel quale si dimostra l'idea di riforma della Repubblica cristiana conforme alla promessa da Dio fatta alle Sante Caterina et Brigida. Entstanden 1602, zweite Fassung 1611, lateinische Fassung 1613. Erstdruck der lateinischen Fassung unter dem Titel Civitas solis idea republicae philosophicae: Frankfurt am Main 1623. Erstdruck der italienischen Fassung nach dem Originalmanuskript: Modena 1904. Erste deutsche Ubersetzung (anonym): Altenburg 1789. Der Text...