La Cite du Soleil" par Tommaso Campanella. Tommaso Campanella etait un dominicain et philosophe italien (1568-1639).

La Cité Du Soleil

Fort de la constatation que l'Espagne a failli à ses devoirs de championne du catholicisme, Tommaso Campanella confie à la France la mission de libérer la péninsule italienne et d'instaurer une monarchie universelle. Prédicateur sans chaire usant d'une rhétorique enflammée, il exhorte inlassablement les destinataires idéaux ou réels de ses écrits à soutenir activement la politique menée par Louis XIII et le cardinal de Richelieu. Les quatre textes réunis dans ce volume - Dialogue politique entre un Vénitien, un Espagnol et un Français à propos des récents troubles de France (1632), Aphorismes politiques en faveur des nécessités présentes de la France (1635), Avertissements à la nation française (1635) et Discours politiques en faveur du siècle présent (1636) - illustrent sa quête d'un bras armé séculier capable de réaliser la prophétie biblique d'une res publica chrétienne unie sous la boulette d'un seul berger.

Sur la mission de la France

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This book contents:

The Republic by Plato

Utopia by Thomas More

The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella

The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Iron Heel by Jack London

We by Evgeny Zamyatin

Utopia. Сlassic collection. Philosophical and fiction works. From Plato to Bellamy - The Republic, The New Atlantis, The Iron Heel, Looking Backward: 2000–1887, We and others

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LA CITE DU SOLEIL

Depuis toujours, Campanella cherche à promouvoir un "aggiornamento" de la philosophie catholique : un mariage entre théologie, philosophie platonicienne et science contemporaine. C'est qu'il est parfaitement conscient que la science aristotélicienne a fait son temps, et qu'il est urgent d'ouvrir les fenêtres. Depuis au moins 1608, il est en correspondance avec Galilée (qui ne lui répond jamais directement). Sans être lui-même un copernicien, il est convaincu de la caducité d'Aristote. Lorsque, en 1616, les enquêtes de l'Inquisition commencent contre Galilée, le Cardinal Caetani, membre de la commission, se tourne vers Campanella pour connaître son opinion (un prisonnier de l'Inquisition consulté par un cardinal de la Commission de l'Index !). En réponse, il adresse à Caetani cette Apologia où il établit, dans la forme d'une disputation scolastique, que la nouvelle philosophie de Galilée non seulement ne contrarie pas l'Ecriture, mais qu'elle répond même mieux au besoin d'une philosophie naturelle authentiquement chrétienne. L'ouvrage sera imprimé en Allemagne dès 1616 et diffusé dans toute l'Europe.

Apologie De Galilee

"G. M. Prithee, now, tell me what happened to you during that voyage?

Capt. I have already told you how I wandered over the whole earth. In the course of my journeying I came to Taprobane, and was compelled to go ashore at a place, where through fear of the inhabitants I remained in a wood. When I stepped out of this I found myself on a large plain immediately under the equator.

G. M. And what befell you here?

Capt. I came upon a large crowd of men and armed women, many of whom did not understand our language, and they conducted me forthwith to the City of the Sun.

G. M. Tell me after what plan this city is built and how it is governed.

Capt. The greater part of the city is built upon a high hill, which rises from an extensive plain, but several of its circles extend for some distance beyond the base of the hill, which is of such a size that the diameter of the city is upward of two miles, so that its circumference becomes about seven. On account of the humped shape of the mountain, however, the diameter of the city is really more than if it were built on a plain.

It is divided into seven rings or huge circles named from the seven planets, and the way from one to the other of these is by four streets and through four gates, that look toward the four points of the compass. Furthermore, it is so built that if the first circle were stormed, it would of necessity entail a double amount of energy to storm the second; still more to storm the third; and in each succeeding case the strength and energy would have to be doubled; so that he who wishes to capture that city must, as it were, storm it seven times. For my own part, however, I think that not even the first wall could be occupied, so thick are the earthworks and so well fortified is it with breastworks, towers, guns, and ditches..."

The City of the Sun

The City of the Sun is a dialogue between "a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain." The book 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 guide to magical town planning. 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.

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