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Title: | ‘Un fiume piccolissimo di quel mare immenso’ : universalism, navigation and the rethinking of the Mediterranean in Campanella |
Authors: | De Lucca, Jean-Paul |
Keywords: | Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639. City of the sun -- Criticism and interpretation Mediterranean Sea -- Navigation -- 17th century Mediterranean Region -- 17th century -- Description and travel |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | Universidad de Cordoba |
Citation: | De Lucca, J. P. (2017). ‘Un fiume piccolissimo di quel mare immenso’ : universalism, navigation and the rethinking of the Mediterranean in Campanella. Mediterranea, 2, 17-33. |
Abstract: | This contribution offers an intertextual reading of Tommaso Campanella’s early political writings and his utopia, The City of the Sun, with a view of bringing to the fore his stance on the radical shift in early modern maritime geopolitics. Campanella’s proposals for the establishment of world governance were informed by his enthusiasm for inventions such as the navigational compass, and by his emphasis on maritime prowess as a necessary condition for creating a universal monarchy. The dialogical and poetic character of The City of the Sun, and the choice of its imaginary interlocutors, may suggest an interpretation of Campanella’s utopia as a distinctively Mediterranean encounter between the ‘Old World’ and the ‘New World’. The transfer of knowledge and communication thus emerge as crucial lynchpins in Campanella’s project for universal reform and unity. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/23449 |
ISSN: | 24452378 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtPhi |
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