A Genoese sea-captain tells a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers about a city he found on the island of Taprobane: built on a hill inside seven ringed walls painted with all the knowledge of the world, governed by a priest-ruler and his ministers, with goods, work and even children held in common. Campanella wrote the dialogue while imprisoned by the Spanish authorities in Naples.
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