In Filostrato's story, Boccaccio applies and integrates situational irony, dramatic irony and verbal irony as the main themes for the story to make the story more entertaining and to develop the plot itself. All three types of Irony are used throughout the story. The whole story is created on the basis of Irony in all its forms.

Firstly, Filomento develops the plot without using any irony except when Bruno and Buffalmacco discuss the trick. He gets to the point where Calendrino is tricked and then the irony of the story kicks in. Bruno and Buffalmacco steal Calendrino's pig but of course this is really a trick that the two of them are playing on Calendrino. The idea of this trick is that they actually accuse him of tricking them and saying someone stole the pig when really it was himself who had sold the pig and was too...