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This paper deals with the concept of the body in Frane Petrić’s Happy Town (La città felice). Petrić’s Happy Town has its datum-point and key meaning in the etymology of the term felice. This term contains the duality constantly pointed out in Petrić’s conception: since human being consists of body and soul, the duality is noted and repeated through various structures of this town-state. Petrić’s town is successful-happy and happy-blessed and the consideration of the body of citizens is the first task of the sovereign.