ABSTRACT
In one of the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci, Raphael Ithodeus visited an unknown island: the recount he gives to Thomas More about this journey is the fictionalized pretext of Utopia. Utopia was an artificial island constructed by Utopus, but also the cartography of an island described by More and an allegory of England. If maps are the representation of the production of a discourse about city, landscape and space, we have first of all to analyze the narrative forms by which the maps function as a tale of passages, meetings and leave-takings, possible journeys and itineraries between possible travellers. The construction of situations was the most direct way to accomplish new behaviours in the city and to experiment in the urban reality the moments in what could have been life in a society founded on desire.
