The City of the Sun

The City of the Sun

Author	Tommaso Campanella
Original title	La città del sole
Language	Italian
Genre	Utopian fiction
Publication date	1602

The City of the Sun (Italian: La città del sole; Latin: Civitas solis) is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella. It is an important early utopian work. The work was written in Italian in 1602, shortly after Campanella's imprisonment for heresy and sedition. A Latin version was written in 1613–14 and published in Frankfurt in 1623.^{[citation needed]}