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Often appears with: tomb imprisonment · sexual farce · religious alms and masses · purgatory punishment · monastic and ascetic life · judgment, heaven, and hell · hypocrisy and the appearance of virtue · hidden lover · fable, romance, and storytelling · domestic trick · conquest, plunder, and captives · comic deception
Usually: narrative (2) · betrayal (1) · captivity (1) · confronting death (1) · censure (1) · humor (1) · skepticism (1)
After reviving in a tomb, Ferondo is repeatedly beaten and fed by a Bolognese monk, who claims he is in purgatory due to jealousy and instructs him to fear returning to the afterlife again.
fables not a few passed from mouth to mouth of the foolish rustics, and sometimes reached the ears of the lady, who was at no loss to account for them. As for Ferondo, when he revived, 'twas only to find himself he knew not where, while the Bolognese monk entered the tomb, gibbering horribly, and armed with a rod, wherewith, having laid hold of Ferondo, he gave him a severe thrashing. Blubbering and bellowing for pa…
Dioneo introduces a comic tale from Perugia: Pietro di Vinciolo takes an overly hot-blooded wife, and the story builds around her sexual scheming and a hidden lover under a hen-coop discovered by mishap.
to the place, sees him, and apprehends the trick played on him by his wife, which nevertheless he finally condones, for that he is not himself free from blame. -- When the queen had done speaking, and all had praised God that He had worthily rewarded Federigo, Dioneo, who never waited to be bidden, thus began:--I know not whether I am to term it a vice accidental and superinduced by bad habits in us mortals, or whet…