The City of the Sun (1602) - Page 3

⚠The majority of the text visible is extremely faint due to ink bleed-through or scanning artifacts from the following page. Only the central monogram is clearly printed on this side.

The City?

which was composed in the year 1602?

in the land of Likely referring to Naples, where Campanella was imprisoned ...?

and shall be called the City of the Sun?

This monogram likely represents the publisher or printer, possibly associated with the later scholarly circulation of the text.

Tommaso Campanella?

Campanella (1568–1639) was a Dominican friar and philosopher who wrote this famous utopia while imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition.

Giovanni Botti?

Possibly a former owner or a specific editor associated with this manuscript copy.