Antonio Sebastiano Minturno (1500–1574) is remembered today primarily for his substantial contributions to Cinquecento poetics, aimed at establishing the lyric as a macrogenre alongside drama and narrative poetry (De poeta, 1559; L'arte poetica, 1564). Yet in addition to his poetological writings, Minturno also produced a significant number of other works, including a series of poems in the volgare published under the title Rime et prose del Sig. Antonio Minturno (1559). What is more, Minturno referred to his own poems time and again in order to support his poetological positions and to exemplify his theoretical approaches to poetry and to literature in general. Although Minturno himself quite obviously saw a close connection between his poems and his poetics, his lyric oeuvre has received surprisingly little scholarly attention so far. The present paper seeks to fill this lacuna by investigating the nexus between theory and poetic practice in Minturno's works.