Campanella’s new natural philosophy rested on the principle that the books written by men needed to be compared with God’s infinite book of nature, allowing them to correct the mistakes scattered throughout the human ‘copies’ which were always imperfect, partial and liable to revisions. As a reaction, he enthusiastically embraced Bernardino Telesio’s view that knowledge could only be acquired through the observation of things themselves, investigated through the senses and based on a correct understanding of the link between words and objects. During his early formative years as a Dominican friar, he manifested a restless impatience towards Aristotelian philosophy and its followers. He produced a complex and articulate synthesis of all fields of knowledge – including magic and astrology. His philosophical project centred upon the idea of reconciling Renaissance philosophy with a radical reform of science and society. A friend of Galileo and author of the renowned utopia The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, Calabria,1568- Paris, 1639) is one of the most significant and original thinkers of the early modern period.
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