Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World / / John M. Headley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Headley, John M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5244
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 7 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE -- Prologue -- PART ONE: Biographical Context -- CHAPTER I. Toward the Making of a Prophet -- CHAPTER II: The Prophet Bound -- CHAPTER III: The Celebrity Faded -- Illustrations -- PART TWO: Engaging the Major Issues of the Emerging Modern World -- 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