Campanella and Telesio

Campanella spent 27 years in prison, and wrote many of his works during that time. Shortly before these travails, Campanella must have known he was flirting with danger by embracing Telesian philosophy. To promote Telesio's natural philosophy was to court controversy,. His first work was a rebuttal of a treatise entitled Defense of Aristotle Against Telesio by Giocomo Marta. In the end it will be through the mind that we achieve true happiness by contemplating the divine.