campanella

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Campanella (Italian kampaˈnɛlla) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Tommaso. 1568--1639, Italian philosopher and Dominican friar. During his imprisonment by the Spaniards (1599--1626) he wrote his celebrated utopian fantasy, La città del sole.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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