exclaims Caravia. Zanpolo promises that after his death he will try to return and appear before him. He dies shortly after; most of the verses of the poem describe the jeweler's dream in which zanpolo, the buffoon, relates his journey to paradise where he converses with St. Peter, and to hell where, through his clowning, he first forms a friendship with the devil, Farfarello, and later meets another famous buffoon, Domenego Taiacalze. The latter suggests a plan that will enable Zanpolo to appear before Caravia, as he had promised