The Journey through the Molise countryside acquires, in the context of a life against the current of Longano, a particular meaning. Published for the first time in 1788, it was largely rewritten in 1796 (but published only in 1960), when, after the revolutionary events, confidence in the possibility of following the moderate path of reforms to obtain significant measures and results on the social and political through the collaboration of princes. L. imagined a place in Sannio called Filopoli, a perfect and democratic utopian society in which Montesquieu himself, he wrote, would have liked to stay and write. It was the place where the relationship between city and countryside was harmonized, and L. revealed even more his Masonic militancy (the most recent one, perhaps dating back to 1786 and the foundation of the Illuminati lodge in Naples by Friedrich Münter) and he exalted the myth of the Samnite people, attached to their homeland and lovers of freedom. The very constitution of Filopoli provided for perfect equality of goods, rights and duties, in the face of a civil religion without a Church and without powers, preserved by priests chosen from among the most enlightened and benevolent fathers of families.