Prophecy, Politics and Utopia

Ernst, Germana

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Germana Ernst²

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The bare bones of the apologetic document Secunda delineatio defensionum would be developed further as the Articuli prophetales, a title which had already been used as a sub-title for the original work. The structure of the text lists works by saints and prophets, scholars, philosophers, astrologers, and Sibyls in order to prove the legitimacy of the expectations of the coming of a new golden age, with the following corollaries: the future Christian republic would be saved by a single King and Priest, holder of both spiritual and temporal power; that rulers would take on the role of defenders and ministers of the single monarch; and that the Catholic sovereign is to be identified with the mystical Cyrus, to whom fell the highest task of reunifying the Christian flock.

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1.
Secunda delineatio, pp. 173-213.
2.
See the introduction to the Art. proph., pp. XXXVIIff.
3.
Art. proph., pp. 202-203.
4.
Ath. triumph., p. 235.
5.
Syntagma, IV, 3, p. 98.
6.
See Rodolfo De Mattei, ‘Materiali campanelliani nella Philosophia regia di G. A. Brancalasso,’ GCFI, 26 (1947), pp. 373-393; see ch. 3, notes 23, 24.
7.
There is now a modern edition with an Italian translation of the De politica by A. Cesaro (Naples, 2001).
8.
The Observata of Grotius can be found in Aforismi pol., p. 229ff.
9.
Luigi Firpo, introduction to the Aforismi pol., p. 10.
10.
Aforismi pol., 28 and 29, p. 99.
11.
Ibid., 35, p. 102; see Germana Ernst, ‘ragion di Stato,’ in Enciclopedia, vol. 1, coll. 317-329.
12.
Ibid., n. 58, p. 109.
13.
Ibid., pp. 122-123. For studies of the relationship between Campanella and Machiavelli, see ch. 4, note 75.
14.
The episode, recalled frequently by Campanella, is taken from ch. 7 of Machiavelli’s Principe.
15.
Aforismi pol., n. 100, p. 124.
16.
Ibid., 129, pp. 134-135.
17.
Norberto Bobbio, introduction to his own edition of the Città del Sole (Turin, 1941), pp. 31-34. There is a bibliography of the various editions of the work in Margherita Palumbo, La Città del Sole. Bibliografia delle edizioni. 1623-2002(Pisa-Rome, 2004).
18.
Aristotle, Poëtica, IX, 1451b.
19.
Syntagma, II, 5, p. 78.
20.
Città del Sole, pp. 23, 13.
21.
Ibid., pp. 23-24.
22.
Ibid., p. 25.
23.
Lettere, p. 28.
24.
A knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, also known as the Order of Malta. On the character of Hospitaller, see Jean-Paul De Lucca, ‘Prophetic Representation and Political Allegorisation: the Hospitaller in Campanella’s The City of the Sun,’ B&C, 15 (2009), pp. 387-405.
25.
Città del Sole, p. 13.
26.
See ibid., p. 10; Quaestio quarta politica, art. 3, note 10, in Città del Sole(1996) p. 155.
27.
Città del Sole, p. 21.
28.
Ibid., pp. 23, 45.
29.
Ibid., pp. 20, 22.
30.
Ibid., pp. 20-21.
31.
See ch. 10, p. 183. See Città del Sole (1996), note 46, p. 58; note 73, p. 64; Quaestio quarta politica, art. 3, note 5, ibid., p. 149. On the persistence of more traditional attitudes towards women, see Lina Bolzoni, ‘Tommaso Campanella e le donne: fascino e negazione della differenza,’ Annali d’Italianistica, 7 (1989), pp. 193-216; on the role of women in Campanella, see also Margherita Isnardi Parente, ‘Tommaso Campanella e la Repubblica di Platone,’ Archivio Storico per la Calabria e la Lucania, 46 (1999), pp. 93-111; Jean-Louis Fournel, ‘Le contrôle des mariages et des naissance dans la pensée politique de Campanella,’ B&C, 7 (2001), pp. 209-220; Germana Ernst, ‘donna,’ in Enciclopedia, vol. 2 (forthcoming).
32.
Poesie, p. 327.
33.
Città del Sole, p. 44.
34.
Ibid., p. 25.
35.
Ibid., p. 54.
36.
Quaestio quarta politica, in Città del Sole (1996) p. 145ff.
37.
Liber de Sole, in Marsilii Ficini Opera (Basel, 1576), I, p. 966; Italian translation in Marsilio Ficino, Scritti sull’astrologia, ed. O. Pompeo Faracovi (Milan, 1999), pp. 187-188.
38.
Girolamo Benzoni, La istoria del mondo nuovo(Venice, 1565), p. 121.
39.
Girolamo Ruscelli, Le imprese illustri (Venice, 1584), p. 191.
40.
Poesie, n. 89, vv. 39-44, p. 455: ‘Tempio vivo sei, statua e venerabile volto,/del verace Dio pompa e suprema face./Padre di natura e degli astri rege beato,/vita, anima e senso d’ogni seconda cosa;/sotto gli auspici di cui, ammirabile scola/al Primo Senno filosofando fei.’

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Ernst, G. (2010). Prophecy, Politics and Utopia. In: Tommaso Campanella. International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, vol 200. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3126-6_6

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