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The City of the Sun is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella, an important early utopian work. It was written in Italian in 1602, shortly after Campanella's imprisonment for heresy and sedition, with a Latin version written afterward and published in Frankfurt in 1623.

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Wikipedia lead dates the original Italian composition to 1602, a Latin version to 1613-14, and Frankfurt publication of that Latin version to 1623; 1602 used as the earliest dated composition, the later dates recorded here rather than picked silently.
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The work was written in Italian in 1602, shortly after Campanella's imprisonment for heresy and sedition.
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