Tommaso Campanella, traduzioni tedesche: Poesie filosofiche

[Autom. eng. transl.] Germany played a fundamental role in the diffusion of Tommaso Campanella's works, both because many of his writings were published in the first edition, and because the figure of the monk of Stilo was always in the foreground, as evidenced by the numerous translations of his works that have followed one another over time. The article therefore proposes a first investigation into the reception of Campanella in Germany, an area that was completely unexplored until now, and as the first stage of a broader journey it focuses on philosophical poems. The editio princeps of the collection comprising 89 lyrics was released in Germany in 1622 in a first, very rare edition which for over two centuries constituted the essential starting point for the European diffusion and reception of Campanellian opera. The work traces in chronological order the different phases of the reception of the Poems trying to outline, from time to time, the historical-cultural context in which the individual translations are inserted, from the seventeenth-century ones linked to the Rosicrucian circle of Tübingen, to those of Johann Gottfried Herder who intended to explore the link between philosophy and poetry. The nineteenth century saw the intensification of interest in the Calabrian philosopher, initially thanks to the rediscovery of the philosophy of nature, whose roots lead directly to the thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, primarily Bruno and Campanella, while towards the end of the century the interest in the social and political thought of the philosopher (for example in the translations of Eberhard Gothein, economist and historian of culture, successor of Max Weber on the Heidelberg chair). Readings and interpretations in a more markedly socialist and communist key will follow in the early twentieth century. For each translation, the linguistic choices and strategies adopted by the translator are briefly discussed, in addition to the context in which it was made.