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Often appears with: vigilante arrest by peasants · shame and reputation loss · revenge prank between companions · honor, shame, and reputation · false accusations · custom and unwritten law · crime and punishment
Usually: narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · detachment (1) · humor (1)
When peasants hear Fortarrigo shout “thief,” Angiulieri is arrested and stripped in turn, while Fortarrigo rides back to Siena claiming he won horse and clothes from him, leaving Angiulieri in shame and shirt.
God, would have suited action to word; and so, threatening to have him hanged by the neck and proclaimed an outlaw at the gallows-tree of Siena, he mounted his horse. Fortarrigo, making as if 'twas not to him, but to another, that Angiulieri thus spoke, made answer:--"Come now, Angiulieri, we were best have done with all this idle talk, and consider the matter of substance: we can redeem for thirty-five soldi, if we…