BELL THROUGH GERMANY: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Campanella's reception is generally closely connected with the outcome of the first dissemination of his works in Germany, which took place through the good offices of contacts which he ostensibly nurtured while he was in prison, as well as through German friends who carried along with them works that circulated in Germany from 1617 onwards, in both manuscript form and first printed editions. This contribution presents a bibliography-chronology of Campanella's presence in Germany in the seventeenth century (1602-1700), which takes into account (a) epistolary contacts with German figures, (b) editions of some works, in both Italian and Latin, and (c) the first German translations of his works.