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- A monk, having committed a sin deserving of very severe punishment, escapes the consequences by politely reproaching his abbot with the very same fault (I.4).
- Paganino of Monaco steals the wife of Messer Ricciardo di Chinzica who, on learning where she is, goes and makes friends with Paganino. Ricciardo asks him to give her back and Paganino agrees on condition that he obtain her consent. She refuses to back with Messer Ricciardo and after his death becomes Paganino's wife (II.10).
- Alibech becomes a recluse, and after being taught by the monk, Rustico, to put the devil back in Hell, she is eventually taken away to become the wife of Neerbal (III.10).
- The wife of a physician, mistakenly assuming her lover, who has taken an opiate, to be dead, deposits him in a trunk which is carried off to their house by two money-lenders with the man still inside it. On coming to his senses, he is seized as a thief, but the lady's maidservant tells the judge that it was she who put him in the trunk, thereby saving him from the gallows, while the usurers are sentenced to pay a fine for making off with the trunk (IV.10).
- Pietro di Vinciolo goes out to sup with Ercolano, and his wife lets a young man in to keep her company. Pietro returns, and she conceals the youth beneath a chicken coop. Pietro tells her that a young man has been discovered in Ercolano's house, having been concealed there by Ercolano's wife whose conduct she severely censures. As ill luck would have it, an ass steps on the fingers of the fellow hiding beneath the coop, causing him to yell with pain. Pietro rushes to the spot and sees him, thus discovering his wife's deception. But in the end, by reason of his own depravity, he arrives at an understanding with her (V.10).
- Fifth Day Conclusion (Dioneo's song)
- Friar Cipolla promises a crowd of country folk that he will show them a feather of the Angel Gabriel, and on finding that some bits of coal have been put in its place, he proclaims that these were left over from the roasting of Saint Lawrence (VI.10).
- Two Sienese fall in love with a woman of whose child one of them is the godfather. This man dies, returns to his companion from the afterworld in fulfillment of a promise he had given him, and describes what people do there (VII.10).
- A Sicilian lady cleverly relieves a merchant of the goods he has brought to Palermo. He later returns there pretending to have brought a much more valuable cargo, and after having borrowed a sum of money from the lady, leaves her with nothing but a quantity of water (VIII.10).
- Father Gianni is prevailed upon by Neighbor Pietro to cast a spell in order to turn his wife into a mare; but when he comes to fasten on the tail, Neighbor Pietro, by saying that he did not want a tail, completely ruins the spell (IX.10).
- The Marquis of Saluzzo, obliged by the entreaties of his subjects to take a wife, follows his personal whims and marries the daughter of a peasant. She bears him two children, and he gives her the impression that he has put them to death. Later on, pretending that she has incurred his displeasure and that he has remarried, he arranges for his own daughter to return home and passes her off as his bride, having meanwhile turned his wife out of doors in no more than the shift she is wearing. But on finding that she endures it all with patience, he cherishes her all the more deeply, brings her back to his house, and honors her as the Marchioness, causing others to honor her likewise (X.10).
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