The Internet Wiretap edition of

THE CITY OF THE SUN, by TOMMASO CAMPANELLA.

From Ideal Commonwealths,
P.F. Collier & Son, New York.

(c)1901 The Colonial Press [expired]

Prepared by Kirk Crady <kcrady@polaris.cv.nrao.edu>
from scanner output provided by Internet Wiretap.

This book is in the public domain, released August 1993.




THE CITY OF THE SUN


A Poetical Dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights
Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-Captain, his guest.


G.M.  Prithee, now, tell me what happened to you during
that voyage?


Capt.  I have already told you how I wandered
over the whole earth.  In the course of my journeying I came
to Taprobane, and was compelled to go ashore at a place, where
through fear of the inhabitants I remained in a wood.  When I
stepped out of this I found myself on a large plain immediately
under the equator.


G.M.  And what befell you here?


Capt.  I came upon a large crowd of men and armed women,
many of whom did not understand our language, and t . . .