The City Of The Sun by Tommaso Campanells
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This short book is written in the form of a poetical discussion between the Grand Master of Knights Hospitallers and a Sea Captain of Genova of Italy, the birthplace of Christopher Columbus.
It can be taken as a discovery of a Sea Captain (probably Christopher Columbus) of a totally different civilization somewhere in his voyage, which is practicing most of the modern life practices right from birth to death. The minutest detailing of each and every aspect of life regarding the birth, education, marriage, old age, love, warfare, protection, laws and wisdom of this civilization is awesome. Though this city is quite small, there seems to be perfection imbibed in the blood of each and every individual dwelling in the city. The perfection lies in every walk of their life irrespective of sex, colour and age. One could learn how in the olden days people perfected life and why there were no differences amongst them despite there were other cities around which were suffering with internal strives.

Pros: It is great to understand the fact that in this City of the Sun, there were no names to the citizens nor does it practices any caste system. A nice learning about the best practices of life, which could be imbibed into almost all the cultures and civilizations of the world today. The story seems to be inclined towards the cultures of some civilization which was related to India. The exact base on which the principle of Communism was developed upon seems to have been reflecting in the lifestyle of this City of the Sun.

Cons: The name of the City was not disclosed, nor was the place of its existence.

My rating is 3 out of 5


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