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this article examines the selection of satiric poems of the Siglo de Oro that Giovan Battista Conti proposed in his Colección de poesía castellana traducida en verso toscano. In the Prólogo, Conti praises the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish satiric poetry, which was exemplified on Marziale, Orazio and Giovenale. Upon reading the Colección, however, one realizes Conti only translates some seventeenth-century satires by Lupercio and Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola. While this is coherent with the reputation the Argensola brothers enjoyed in the eighteenth century, the Dictamen that Conti adds at the end is actually surprising, because of the criticism towards Bartolomé for his supposed preference for Giovenale. The polemical text was written thinking more of the recipients of Conti's book -the Italian readers - than of reasons connected with the Spanish culture. With the Dictamen Conti tries to participate in the fierce debate on the satire in which the Italian intellectuals of the second half of the eighteenth century had been involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]