As a basis for its argumentation, the article sketches a parallel between the imaginarycountries represented in Sannazaro’s Arcadia (1504) and More’s Utopia (1515). Takinginto account the two paradigms induced by these masterpieces in previous and posteriorliterature, it claims that a century later Luis de Góngora designs in the Solitudes animaginary country that holds something of both models. The poem tells a story set in aidealized rural region, along the lines of Arcadia. And at the same time it reflects an optimalconstitution of the republic or utopia, a model of collective happiness made possibleby the elision of all elements of social reality that involve misery and loss of freedom. This representation in a highly learned and complex...