Summary - Giorgio Manganelli, the future and extroverted Italian writer, author among other books of Hilarotragedia (1964) and of Encomio del tiranno (1990) was a student at the Faculty of  Political Sciences of the University of Pavia and he graduated in November 1945 when not 23 years old yet. The author, on the basis of his graduation paper, reconstructs the academical curriculum of Manganelli, excellent student, and he examines the contents of his paper, discussed with Professor Vittorio Beonio Brocchieri. The title was Contributo critico allo Studio delle dottrine politiche del Seicento italiano (A Critical Contribution to the Study of Political Doctrines in Italian 1600). The author emphasizes the virtues and the defaults of this paper; on one hand the nearly systematical lack of precise historiographical and bibliographical references, on the other, however, the vitality of the interpretation Manganelli showed to give new life to some very relevant thinkers (from Machiavelli, to Paolo Sarpi and Tommaso Campanella) making a synthesis of their political thought also adding very witty and personal critical remarks. As a confirmation of Manganelli's particular approach, a chapter of the above mentioned paper is published in appendix, which is entirely devoted to Campanella and his project of utopia, La Cittą del Sole (The City of Sun), which tries to combine a political reformation with a moral one through a "sort of ultimate universal organization", capable of "reorganizing individual life and collective experience", but also of (as Manganelli adds with some disillusioned scepticism) "affecting many dreams and fears of a lost mankind".