# The Decameron — Character guide

> Key figures in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

- [Calandrino](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/calandrino.md): A gullible painter repeatedly tricked by his friends Bruno and Buffalmacco.
- [Andreuccio di Pietro](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/andreuccio.md): A young merchant from Perugia who falls into misadventures in Naples.
- [Messer Torello d'Istria](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/messer_torello.md): A nobleman who goes on crusade and returns to find his wife remarried.
- [Tedaldo Elisei](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/tedaldo_elisei.md): A Florentine lover who returns from exile disguised as a pilgrim.
- [Bruno](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/bruno.md): A mischievous painter who plays pranks on Calandrino and others.
- [Ricciardo Minutolo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/ricciardo_minutolo.md): A nobleman who tricks a lady into meeting him by a clever ruse.
- [Gisippus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/gisippus.md): A generous Athenian friend who gives up his betrothed to his friend Titus.
- [Cimon](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/cimon.md): A rough youth transformed by love who wins his beloved through daring.
- [Titus Quintius Fulvus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/titus_quintius_fulvus.md): A Roman who marries his friend Gisippus's betrothed and later repays him.
- [Master Ciappelletto](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/master_ciappelletto.md): A wicked notary who makes a false confession and is revered as a saint.
- [Alessandro Chiarmontesi](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/alessandro.md): A young Florentine who marries a princess after a series of adventures.
- [Nathan](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/nathan.md): A wealthy and generous man who tests the limits of his rival's envy.
- [Rinaldo d'Asti](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/rinaldo_dasti.md): A merchant robbed and then sheltered by a widow who mistakes him for her lover.
- [Mithridanes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/mithridanes.md): A man consumed by envy who tries to outdo Nathan in generosity.
- [Fra Alberto](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/fra_alberto.md): A lecherous friar who deceives a woman by pretending to be the Angel Gabriel.
- [Nicostratus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/nicostratus.md): A husband whose wife Lydia plots to prove her love by deceiving him.
- [Martellino](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/martellino.md): A prankster who pretends to be a cripple and is nearly executed.
- [Catella](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/catella.md): A jealous wife tricked into sleeping with her husband's friend.
- [Gualtieri](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/gualtieri.md): A marquis who tests his wife Griselda's patience with cruel trials.
- [Nastagio degli Onesti](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/nastagio_degli_onesti.md): A young man who uses a ghostly vision to win a cruel lady's love.
- [Ferondo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/ferondo.md): A man tricked into believing he is in purgatory by a jealous abbot.
- [Masetto](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/masetto.md): A young gardener who feigns muteness to seduce nuns in a convent.
- [Landolfo Ruffolo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/landolfo_ruffolo.md): A merchant who loses his wealth at sea but recovers it through a shipwreck.
- [Salabaetto](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/salabaetto.md): A young merchant tricked by a Sicilian courtesan but later outwits her.
- [Master Simone](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/master_simone.md): A foolish physician duped by Bruno and Buffalmacco into a treasure hunt.
- [Saladin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/saladin.md): The sultan who travels incognito and is generously hosted by Messer Torello.
- [Ruggieri da Jeroli](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/ruggieri.md): A young man who falls in love with a married woman and faces danger.
- [Federigo degli Alberighi](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/federigo_degli_alberighi.md): A nobleman who impoverishes himself for love and sacrifices his falcon.
- [Messer Angiolieri](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/messer_angiolieri.md): A jealous husband who is tricked by his wife and her lover.
- [Messer Ricciardo di Chinzica](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/messer_ricciardo_di_chinzica.md): An elderly judge who marries a young wife and cannot satisfy her.
- [Lauretta](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/lauretta.md): One of the ten storytellers in the frame narrative, often telling tales of love.
- [Sophronia](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/sophronia.md): A young woman married to Gisippus but loved by Titus, leading to a complex love triangle.
- [Madam Beritola Caracciola](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/madam_beritola.md): A noblewoman who loses her family and lives as a recluse on an island.
- [Ghino di Tacco](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/ghino_di_tacco.md): A famous outlaw who robs an abbot but later treats him with courtesy.
- [Currado Malespina](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/currado_malespina.md): A nobleman who tests his wife's fidelity with a clever trick.
- [Ambrogiuolo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/ambrogiuolo.md): A deceitful merchant who wagers that he can seduce a faithful wife.
- [Aldobrandino Palermini](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/aldobrandino_palermini.md): A gentleman who hosts a dinner where a prank goes wrong.
- [King Agilulf](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/king_agilulf.md): A Lombard king who cleverly discovers and punishes a groom's deception.
- [Lydia](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/lydia.md): A noblewoman who proves her love for Pyrrhus by performing impossible tasks.
- [Gabriotto](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/gabriotto.md): A young lover who dies suddenly in his beloved's arms.
- [Tingoccio Mini](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/tingoccio_mini.md): A man who makes a pact with his friend about the afterlife.
- [Pampinea](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/pampinea.md): The eldest of the ten storytellers, who proposes the retreat from Florence.
- [Fra Rinaldo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/fra_rinaldo.md): A friar who seduces a woman and then escapes her husband's wrath.
- [Zeppa di Mino](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/zeppa_di_mino.md): A man who discovers his wife's infidelity and retaliates in kind.
- [Messer Fortarrigo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/messer_fortarrigo.md): A gambler who loses everything and then tricks his brother.
- [Pamfilo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/pamfilo.md): One of the ten storytellers, known for his wise and romantic tales.
- [Anichino](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/anichino.md): A servant who seduces his master's wife and is caught but forgiven.
- [Dioneo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/dioneo.md): A witty storyteller who often tells the final, humorous tale of each day.
- [Arriguccio Berlinghieri](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/arriguccio_berlinghieri.md): A merchant who discovers his wife's affair and is tricked by her.
- [Giacomino da Pavia](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/giacomino_da_pavia.md): A man who leaves his wealth to his nephew, causing family conflict.
- [Messer Ruggieri de' Figiovanni](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/messer_ruggieri.md): A nobleman who is tricked by a jealous husband into a humiliating situation.
- [Constantine](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/constantine.md): A young man who falls in love with a woman and faces her father's opposition.
- [Bernabo Lomellini](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/bernabo_lomellini.md): A merchant who wagers on his wife's fidelity and is deceived by a trick.
- [Tancred](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/tancred.md): A prince who kills his daughter's lover and sends her his heart in a goblet.
- [Buffalmacco](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/buffalmacco.md): A painter and prankster who often collaborates with Bruno.
- [Guiscardo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/guiscardo.md): A young page who becomes the lover of Princess Ghismonda and is killed.
- [Messer Geri Spina](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/spina.md): A nobleman who is cuckolded by his wife with a young lover.
- [Simona](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/paul_simona_pasquino.md): A young woman whose lover dies after eating a poisoned sage leaf.
- [Giosefo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/giosefo.md): A Jewish man who converts to Christianity after a series of events.
- [Puccio di Rinieri](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/puccio_di_rinieri.md): A man who is tricked by his wife and her lover into believing a lie.
- [Spinelloccio Tanena](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/spinelloccio_tanena.md): A man who has an affair with his friend's wife and is discovered.
- [Messer Egano de' Gulluzzi](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/egano.md): A husband who is tricked by his wife and her lover into a humiliating situation.
- [Ninetta](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/ninetta.md): A young woman who is tricked into marriage by a clever suitor.
- [Gianni di Procida](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/gianni_di_procida.md): A young man who rescues his beloved from a sultan's harem.
- [Mistress Belcolore](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/mistress_belcolore.md): A peasant woman who outwits a lecherous priest.
- [Messer Gentile de' Carisendi](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/messer_gentile.md): A nobleman who revives a woman thought dead and restores her to her husband.
- [Gabriel](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/gabriel.md): The archangel impersonated by Fra Alberto to seduce a Venetian woman.
- [Filostrato](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/filostrato.md): One of the ten storytellers, often telling tragic tales of love.
- [Madam Sismonda](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/madam_sismonda.md): A wife who cleverly defends herself against her husband's accusations.
- [Messer Currado](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/currado.md): A nobleman who tests his cook's wit after a crane is served missing a leg.
- [Il Zima](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/il_zima.md): A young man who wins a lady by a clever speech to her husband.
- [Andrevuola](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/andrevuola.md): A young woman who secretly marries and is widowed, then faces her family.
- [Peronella](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/peronella.md): A clever wife who hides her lover from her husband in a barrel.
- [Primasso](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/primasso.md): A poor scholar who tricks a greedy abbot into giving him a meal.
- [Giannotto](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/giannotto.md): A young man who pretends to be deaf to seduce a woman.
- [Sicurano da Finale](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/sicurano_da_finale.md): A woman disguised as a sailor who becomes a sultan's trusted captain.
- [Fra Puccio](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/fra_puccio.md): A devout but gullible friar tricked by his wife and her lover.
- [Niccolosa](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/niccolosa.md): A young woman who is seduced by a friar and later married off.
- [Messer Filippo Argenti](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/messer_filippo_argenti.md): A Florentine nobleman known for his bad temper and later mocked by Dante.
- [Fiammetta](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/fiammetta.md): One of the ten storytellers, often telling passionate tales of love.
- [Ghismonda](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/ghismonda.md): A princess who takes a low-born lover and defies her father's cruelty.

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