trial by his own order, and between 1594 and 1595 was tortured and interrogated in Padua and Rome. The inquisitorial trial ended with the sentence for apostasy and vehement suspicion of heresy by the Congregation of the Holy Office. In Naples
came into contact with astrology, the astrological references in fact would become a constant feature in his writings. Campanella spent 27 years in prison in Naples. During his imprisonment he wrote his most important works: "The Monarchy of Spain," "Political Aphorisms." Civitas Soli
Campanella was also the author of an important work of utopian character, or The City of the Sun in Sun City, he describes an ideal city, utopian, governed by the Metaphysics, a king-priest face to the worship of God Sun, a secular god just a natural religion, of which Bell himself is a supporter, even though they involve rationally to coincide with the Christian religion. This priest-king uses three assistants, representatives of the three primality which focuses on the metaphysics campanelliana: Power, Wisdom and Love. In this city exists the community of property and the fellowship of women. In outlining his view of the collectivist society, Campanella draws on Plato (fifth century BC.) And Thomas More's Utopia (1517), among the antecedents of utopianism bell is also counted by the New Atlantis of Bacon. Utopianism was assumed that, because you could not create a model that reflected the state of justice and equality, then this state is assumed, as did Plato in his time, but it is important to emphasize that, while Bell is a utopian reality, Nicholas Machiavelli exalts or effectual reality, and his conception of the state is not utopian, but takes on a concrete method of governance of public affairs.