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expressive forms used in the medieval poetics and rhetoric of vituperium. To this purpose, Decaria convincingly identifies several categories that address the various forms of insults in Pulci’s multivalent style. Also centered on theMorgante is Maria Cristina Cabani’s examination of the poem’s rhetorical use of simile. Cabani shows that Pulci does not share the rhetorical function of simile that Boiardo incorporated in his poem (and which Ariosto and Tasso refined), as an instrument to enrich the epic narrative discourse. Pulci, instead, uses simile as a quick comic and hyperbolic instrument with subversive effects more linked to the cantare and to the comic-realistic traditions. This anticlassical posture displays a polemical Pulci against the humanists in Lorenzo’s circle. The profound Christological symbolism of Orlando’s death in the Morgante is the center of Stefano Carrai’s article. The author analyzes the interwoven sources of the episode, demonstrating that Pulci creates an original account where the sword Durlindana, planted in the earth, becomes the figure of the cross, while the paladin’s body is the figure of the crucified Christ. Linda Carroll’s contribution seeks to identify a strand of irreverence between Pulci and Ruzante. Jo Ann Cavallo’s essay concentrates on the Roncevaux episode by focusing on Rinaldo’s character and his fortune in popular culture, namely the Sicilian Puppet Theater, still alive today. Cavallo shows that Giusto Lo Dico’s Storia dei paladini di Francia (1858–60), the main Sicilian puppeteers’ source, was much indebted to theMorgante for the characterization of Rinaldo as the savior and of Charlemagne as a political failure. It should be noted that the majority of the contributors do not challenge the traditional idea of a Pulci in trouble with Lorenzo and forced to leave Florence. In reality, as shown in recent studies, this is a crisis that did not actually happen. It will, therefore, be important for future research to rethink the relationship between Pulci’s reexamined biography and his literary texts. The volume represents an important collection of studies and makes clear (as is rightly declared by the editors in the exemplary introduction) how, in Pulci, the interplay between biography and writing is remarkably strong.