 The City of the Sun is Campanella’s best-known work today, but it is not the only expression of his political thought, which was multifaceted and which evolved over the course of his life, from his youthful days until his final years of exile in Paris. An important textual consideration is that while Campanella started writing his utopia in Italian soon after being sentenced to life imprisonment, at more or less the same time he was working on a series of political aphorisms, also in Italian. He eventually translated both texts into Latin, placing the Civitas Solis as an appendix to the aphorisms, which now took the form of a treatise covering both theoretical and practical aspects of politics and government. The Politica and its appendix, together with four political quaestiones in which he also theorized about the utopian genre, constitute the third part of his Philosophia realis (Frankfurt, 1623; Paris, 1637). The shared trajectory of his general treatise on politics and his utopia provides a clear indication of how different aspects and expressions of his political thought were intertwined.