Campanella’s utopia embedded humans inside a living, breathing female earth.

Evidence

The people of Campanella’s City of the Sun were to dwell in an organic holistic cosmos. Their earth was like an animal, drawing its source of motion from within, and was alive with blood from its bowels. As in the Hermetic Emerald Tablet, the earth was considered to be a mother and the sun a father: … They assert two principles of the physics of things below, namely that the sun is the father and the earth the mother; the air is an impure part of the heavens; all fire is derived from the sun. The sea is the sweat of the earth, or the fluid of earth combusted, and fused within its bowels, but is the bond of union between air and earth, as the blood is of the spirit and flesh of animals. The world is a great animal, and we live within it as worms live within us. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 377

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly continues the book’s established ‘mining as violating the earth mother’s body’ thread (ch5, ch9) and links to the ‘Grafting & Growth’ essay’s interest in living-root and organic worldviews as alternate infrastructures — a visceral image of the pre-Baconian cosmos this polyad opposes to the mechanistic worldview.
• XREF: The ‘world as great animal, we live in it as worms live within us’ strongly echoes animist/sentient-earth worldbuilding common in speculative fiction and the eco-justice course’s multispecies strand.