Tommaso Campanella and the transformation of the world / John M. Headley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Headley, John M., author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5244

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639.

Campanella, Tommaso.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is one of the most fascinating, if hitherto inaccessible, intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance. His work ranges across many of the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political concerns of that tumultuous era. John Headley uses Campanella's life and works to open a window into this complex period. He not only explicates the frequently contradictory texts of a prolific author but also situates Campanella's writings amidst the larger currents of European thought.For all its obscurely magical and astrolgocial intricacies, Campanella's entire intellectual endeavor expresses an effort to impose a distinctive order and direction upon the major issues and forces of the age different from that which was shortly to prevail with the new Galilean science and the Leviathan state. In the process of identifying and engaging these issues and imparting in some instances something of his own, he managed to mobilize and deploy many of the salient principles of late medieval and Renaissance culture, often cast in a curiously modern hue and aligned with the new forces of the age. Indeed, modern and antique, new and old juxtapose violently in the person of this reformer who combines an encyclopedic comprehensiveness of intellect with an appalling intensity of will. He is a man who strove to destabilize the regnant forces of what he identified as tyranny, sophistry, and hypocrisy and to shake the world into a new order. In this book, Headley invites readers to look anew at this mercurial figure and at the turbulent times in which he lived.John M. Headley is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored studies of Luther, Thomas More, the Emperor Charles V, and San Carlo Borromeo.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ABBREVIATIONS

PREFACE

Prologue

CHAPTER I. Toward the Making of a Prophet

CHAPTER II: The Prophet Bound

CHAPTER III: The Celebrity Faded

Illustrations

Chapter IV. THE CONTROVERSY WITH ARISTOTLE

Chapter V. THE CONTROVERSY WITH MACHIAVELLI: ON THE REARMING OF HEAVEN

Chapter VI. UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: ON IDENTIFYING THE ARM OF GOD

Chapter VII. UNIVERSAL THEOCRACY AND THE ECCLESIASTICAL STATE: THE FIGURE OF MELCHISEDECH

Chapter VIII: NATURALISTIC RELIGION, AMERICA, AND WORLD EVANGELIZATION

Epilogue. CAMPANELLA AND THE END OF THE RENAISSANCE

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-381) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691026794

0691026793

9781400822386

1400822386

9780691194523

0691194521

OCLC:

1078997781