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Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Tommaso Campanella
Added at 09:06 on 05 September 2024
The Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Italian poet, philosopher, astrologer and theologian Tommaso Campanella who was born #OnThisDay 5 September 1568. This partly inspired the first fully-fledged "it-narrative" in English (a genre of novel which follows the fortunes of an object that is passed around between different owners). Tommaso Campanella was accused of conspiring against the Spanish rulers of Calabria in 1599. He was tortured and sent to prison, where he spent 27 years, and during which time he wrote his most significant works
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