TRA UTOPIA E RIFORMISMO: Il “pensiero meridiano” in un recente saggio.

The political ideas of Tommaso Campanella (1568 - 1639) and Pasquale Galluppi (1770 - 1846) were unsuccessful, until they remained, in their times, at the stage of simple enunciations. The two philosophers, if properly revisited – as happened in a recent initiative promoted by the Galluppian Studies Center of Tropea, which finally converged into a collective volume –, sufficiently convince of the existence and philosophical and political relevance of a Southern thought declined, in the two great thinkers, “as well as the Calabrians” [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]