This study sheds light on the "lirici di avanguardia", a fifteenth-century group of Neapolitan poets, who were the first to imitate Petrarchan and, more generally, Tuscan poetic models already popular elsewhere in Italy. Not only does the book highlight the main features of this new form of Neapolitan poetry, it also demonstrates which mechanisms were at play when shaping the "canzoniere" as the unifying poetic collection of the group as a whole.