Abstract
The book The World of Italian Comic-Realistic Poetry maps in a mostly chronological order the type of Italian poetry that is often referred to as 'giocosa' or 'comico-realistica', in the period 1290-1492. The principal themes and individual topoi within the genre are analysed one by one, and examples are introduced to demonstrate the propositions related to the existence, characteristics and quality of the genre and the comic contained therein.
Rustico Filippi, Cecco Angiolieri, Dante Alighieri, Lorenzo de Medici and Luigi Pulci are presented like the most important authors of the comic-realistic genre.