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PHILOSOPHER

Tommaso Campanella

1568 - 1639

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Tommaso Campanella (Italian: [tomˈmaːzo kampaˈnɛlla]; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet. Campanella was prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition for heresy in 1594 and was confined to house arrest for two years. Accused of conspiring against the Spanish rulers of Calabria in 1599, he was tortured and sent to prison, where he spent 27 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tommaso Campanella has received more than 303,990 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Tommaso Campanella is the 124th most popular philosopher (down from 108th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Italy (down from 233rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Tommaso Campanella was a philosopher, theologian, and astrologer who was sentenced to life in prison for heresy and sedition. He is most famous for his utopian work City of the Sun.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Tommaso Campanella ranks 124 out of 1,081. Before him are Johann Friedrich Herbart, Zygmunt Bauman, Antisthenes, Ramon Llull, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. After him are Marsilio Ficino, Mozi, Chanakya, Oswald Spengler, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Giambattista Vico.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1568, Tommaso Campanella ranks 2. Before him is Pope Urban VIII. After him are Jan Brueghel the Elder, Aloysius Gonzaga, Gunilla Bielke, Wei Zhongxian, Adriano Banchieri, Virginia de' Medici, Giuseppe Cesari, Anna Vasa of Sweden, Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, and Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza. Among people deceased in 1639, Tommaso Campanella ranks 2. Before him is Mustafa I. After him are Orazio Gentileschi, Martin de Porres, Roelant Savery, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, Martin Opitz, Stefano Landi, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Augusta of Denmark, John Ford, and Johannes Meursius.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Tommaso Campanella ranks 271 out of 4,668. Before him are Pope Adeodatus I (570), Umberto II of Italy (1904), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), Pope Benedict XIII (1649), Pope John VIII (820), and Cimabue (1240). After him are Pope Eugene III (1080), Pope Adrian I (700), Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810), Pope Alexander I (100), Pope Fabian (200), and Catiline (-109).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Tommaso Campanella ranks 12. Before him are Empedocles (-490), Lucretius (-94), Pliny the Elder (23), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), and Boethius (480). After him are Marsilio Ficino (1433), Giambattista Vico (1668), Bonaventure (1221), Cesare Beccaria (1738), Hippasus (-600), and Marsilius of Padua (1275).

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