«O Belzebù domicilio di tranquillità!». Indagine sugli «Spiriti folletti» di Anton Francesco Doni

This essay provides an overview of one of Anton Francesco Doni's minor works, «Gli Spiriti folletti». Published in Florence in 1546, the «Spiriti folletti» is basically a dialogue between two demons who talk to each other about their own misdeeds, also invoking the intervention of Satan on earth in order to administer human justice. After a summary of the text and a brief analysis of its paratextual elements, an intertextual investigation of the «Spiriti folletti» will be proposed, with the aim of comparing themes and terminologies of the dialogue with those present in two other Doni's books, the «Mondi» (1552) and the «Inferni» (1553), to better understand if the «Spiriti folletti» can be considered a prelude to the two subsequent and much more famous works.