Decameron Day 7 2

Decameron, Day 7, Novel 2
Rubric
Peronella hides her lover in a tub when her husband returns home unexpectedly. Her husband has sold the tub, but she tells him that she herself has already sold it to a man who is inspecting it from the inside to see whether it is sound. Leaping forth from the tub, the man gets the husband to scrape it out and carry it back to his house for him. P. 490

Peronella
“lowly condition” p.491
“charming and beautiful girl” p.491

Giannello
“sprightly young gallant” p.491
“powers of persuasion” p.491

Husband
“poor man” p.491
“since her husband got up early every morning to go to work or to go and look for a job” p.491

Peronella tricks husband
“May the Lord God be forever praised; for though he has willed that I should be poor, at least he has given me the consolation of a good, chaste girl for a wife. See how quick she was to lock the door after I left, so that no one should come in and give her any trouble.” P.491
“What’s got into you this morning, coming back home so early? It looks to me, seeing that you’re carrying your tools, as if you’ve decided to take the day off, in which case what are we going to live on? How are we to buy anything to eat? Do you think im going to let you pawn my Sunday dress and my other little bits and pieces? Here I am, stuck in this house from morning till night and working my fingers to the bone, so that we shall at least have sufficient oil to keep our lamp alight! Oh, what a husband! I haven’t a single neighbor who doesn’t gape and laugh at me for slaving away as I do; and yet you come back here twiddling your thumbs when you ought to be working.” P.492
Peronella continues to guilt her husband and make him feel bad…