nce of getting a meaning.
Line 8: seems to mean that he would not accept life and freedom at the
price of concealing his opinions.

LII. The same theme is rehandled. Lines 1-4: Campanella argued that a
man's mental life extends over all that he grasps of the world's
history. Line 5: the Italian for _mite_ is _marmeggio_, which means, I
think, a cheese-worm. The eclipse of Campanella's sun is his
imprisonment. Lines 7 and 8 I do not well understand in the Italian.
Line 11: 'Ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres
of the righteous,' Lines 12-14: saints and sages are made perfect by
suffering.

LIII. A singular argument concerning prayer. Campanella says it is
impious to hope to change the order and facts of the world, arranged by
God, except in the single category of time. He therefore thinks it
lawful for him to ask, and for God to grant, a shortening of the season
of his suffering. See the Canzone translated by me, forming Appendix I.

LIV. Another sonnet referring to his life in prison. He asks God how he
can prosper if his friends all fail him for various reasons. Lines 9-11
refer to the visit of a foe in disguise who came to him in prison and
promised him liberty, probably with a view to extracting from him
admissions of state-treason or of heresy. See the Canzone translated in
Appendix I. The last three lines seem to express his unalterable
courage, and his readiness to act if only God will give him trustworthy
instruments and fill him with His own spirit. The Dantesque language of
the last line is almost incapable of reproduction:

Ch' io m' intuassi come tu t' immii.

LV. Campanella tells his friend that such trivial things as pastoral
poems will not immortalise him. He bids him seek, not outside in worn
out fictions, but within his own soul, for the spirit of true beauty,
turn to God for praise, instead of to a human audience, and go with the
_tabula rasa_ of childlike intelligence into God's school of Nature.
Compare Nos I., V.

LVI. Campanella recognised in Telesio the founder of the new
philosophy, which discarded the ancients and the schoolmen. Line 3: the
tyrant is Aristotle. Lines 5 and 6: Bombino and Montano are the poets.
Lines 7-9: Cavalcante and Gaieta were disciples of the Cosentine
Academy founded by Telesio. Line 9: our saint, _la gran donna_, is the
new philosophy. Line 12: my tocsin, _mia squilla_, is a pun on
Campanella's name.

LVII. Rudolph von Bunau set himsel