![CAMPANELLA, Tommaso (1568-1639). Von der spanischen Monarchy, oder ausführliches Bedencken welchermassen. [Tübingen or Frankfurt]: 1620. Small 4° (176 x 141mm). Pagination: (viii), 166pp. (Worming at upper corners occasionally touching text, a few headlines shaved, without final blank.) Modern grey wrappers, blue speckled edges, modern morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: Teichman von Teichenauw (contemporary signature at end).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_06332_0023_000(campanella_tommaso_von_der_spanischen_monarchy_oder_ausfuhrliches_bede011910).jpg?w=1)
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CAMPANELLA, Tommaso (1568-1639). Von der spanischen Monarchy, oder ausführliches Bedencken welchermassen. [Tübingen or Frankfurt]: 1620. Small 4° (176 x 141mm). Pagination: (viii), 166pp. (Worming at upper corners occasionally touching text, a few headlines shaved, without final blank.) Modern grey wrappers, blue speckled edges, modern morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: Teichman von Teichenauw (contemporary signature at end).
FIRST EDITION of this utopian work, in which 'Campanella evinces, among ideas singularly strange and erroneous, considerable practical knowledge of civil government. To extend Spanish rule in Europe he advised intermarriage of the Spaniards with other nationalities, urged the establishment of schools of astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, etc., and the immediate opening of naval colleges to develop the resources of the New World ... in general he advocated natural honesty and justice and the universal love of God and man in place of the utilitarian principles and egoism of Machiavelli' (Catholic Encyclopedia). Campanella was imprisoned in Naples between 1599 and 1626, charged with a conspiracy against Spanish rule, and many of his works were first published by his followers abroad. This German translation, possibly by Christoph Besold, is from the original Italian manuscript. VERY RARE. RLIN/Eureka locates only the Harvard and Brown copies, and WorldCat adds only the Bavarian State Library. cf. Brunet I, 1521 (Latin edition).
FIRST EDITION of this utopian work, in which 'Campanella evinces, among ideas singularly strange and erroneous, considerable practical knowledge of civil government. To extend Spanish rule in Europe he advised intermarriage of the Spaniards with other nationalities, urged the establishment of schools of astronomy, mathematics, mechanics, etc., and the immediate opening of naval colleges to develop the resources of the New World ... in general he advocated natural honesty and justice and the universal love of God and man in place of the utilitarian principles and egoism of Machiavelli' (Catholic Encyclopedia). Campanella was imprisoned in Naples between 1599 and 1626, charged with a conspiracy against Spanish rule, and many of his works were first published by his followers abroad. This German translation, possibly by Christoph Besold, is from the original Italian manuscript. VERY RARE. RLIN/Eureka locates only the Harvard and Brown copies, and WorldCat adds only the Bavarian State Library. cf. Brunet I, 1521 (Latin edition).