Campanella e le comete nel confronto con Galileo

Name: Campanella e le comete nel confronto con Galileo
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Titolo

Campanella e le comete nel confronto con Galileo

Campanella and the Comets, Discussing with Galileo

Autore

Saverio Ricci

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Vita e Pensiero

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06-2025

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10.26350/001050_000484

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0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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In his letter to Paul V about the comets of 1618, Campanella urges the pope to take ‘apocalyptic’ decisions (war and missions to heretics and Turks), justified by the exceptional stars detected in the sky, signs of God’s will. In his report, no allusion could be made yet to the contributions later given by Orazio Grassi, Mario Guiducci and Galileo. Campanella intervened again about the topic in works edited after the debate of 1619-1623: Astrologicorum libri, Quaestiones Physiologicae, Metaphysica. In his astrology, Campanella offers a compendium about comets, useful to professionals, students and beginners. In the Quaestiones he compares and criticizes ancient and modern physical theories about comets, and in particular he argues against some of the Tyconic positions, shared by Grassi. He is also largely engaged in a critical check of Galileo’s views and tenets, but his prevailing aim is to demonstrate how ingenious and stimulating are, but just provisional, and always lacking, the astronomical explications of events, whose ‘truth’ should be assessed in astrology, metaphysics and escathology. Finally, it sounds theological and cosmological the discourse about comets in Metaphysica, carried out in the frame of a revendication of astrology in a Catholic context, and of Campanella’s philosophy of nature, opposed to ‘neo-pythagorean’ cosmologies.