Tommaso Campanella
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Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
Portrait of Campanella by Francesco Cozza
Former Dominican convent at Placanica
Apologia pro Galileo, 1622
Metaphysica, 1638
Dominican Order
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The Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by the Castilian priest Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved b
Tommaso Campanella
…Tommaso Campanella (Italian: ; 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…
Saint Dominic, portrayed in the Perugia Altarpiece by Fra Angelico, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia
Saint Dominic (1170–1221), portrait by El Greco, about 1600
Saint Dominic on the front cover of Doctrina Christiana catechism in Spanish and Tagalog with an eight-pointed star (a symbol of the Blessed Virgin Mary) over his head. Woodcut cover. Printed in Manila in 1593.
Dominic's room at Maison Seilhan, in Toulouse, is considered the place where the order was born.