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Often appears with: jealousy and marital conflict · hypocrisy and the appearance of virtue · hidden lover · fable, romance, and storytelling · domestic trick · comic deception · adultery, divorce, and separation · adultery
Usually: narrative (1) · betrayal (1) · humor (1)
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…