Abstract
The callipolis or “beautiful city” is one of the paradigms of the Theory of the Fictive City, understood as the city that is born specifically from the literary aesthetic construction. The callipolis has its foundations in the archaic cosmogony, which conceived the city as an idealization of celestial perfection. It is in close relation with the Utopia of Thomas More and with the New World, which, for the English humanist, is the place where the common good, justice and happiness can exist in fullness. Through the narrations of his alter ego Raphael Hythlodaeus, the Portuguese discoverer of the island, More lives the experience of hospitality in Amaurot, the utopian callipolis , as an exercise of acceptance of the new, the otherness and the tolerance. In his neologism, “Utopia”, More harbors the love for knowledge, for faith and for the harmony of beings, even if it is in a “no place”.
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