Giannole and Minghino
Intro
- Storyteller: Neifile
- Everyone laughs their heads off at Filostrato's story and thank him for telling something upbeat for a change. Neifile decides to also tell a tale set in Romagna.
Story
- Giacomino da Pavia inherits his friend Guidotto's ward, a 10-year-old girl.
- Giacomino takes the girl, Agnesa, to his hometown of Faenza and raises her as his own.
- The girl grows up to be beautiful, what else is new?
- So beautiful that two gentlemen, Giannole and Minghino, fall desperately in love with her.
- Each man plots to kidnap her.
- Giannole works with Giacomino's servant, Crivello, to help him get into the house.
- Minghino cozies up to Giacomino's maidservant. She delivers his love letters and puts in a good word with her mistress.
- Both Crivello and the maidservant promise to let their respective gentlemen into the house as soon as Giacomino decides to dine out.
- When that happens, they both send word and both men come running with their posses to snatch the girl.
- Giannole gets there first and grabs the girl, dragging her into the street.
- Agnesa is not pleased. She lets out a blood-curdling scream.
- Minghino rushes to the rescue and the two men start fighting. In the end, Minghino manages to get Agnesa back into the house.
- Giacomino returns and realizes quickly that Agnesa has had nothing to do with this, but he has to marry her off and quick.
- The families of the two men realize they're in a heap of trouble, so they write letters to Giacomino to ask his forgiveness and to ask him what kind of recompense he wants.
- Giacomino says that because he's not native to the area, and that Agnesa actually is, he'll be ruled by them.
- Then Giacomino is obliged to tell the story of how his friend Guidotto found Agnesa.
- He'd been plundering houses in Faenza during wars there when they found a little girl in an abandoned house.
- She was a sweet 2-year-old and called him "father," so he took her into his care.
- One of the gentlemen listening to the story had actually witnessed the incident and knew that the house belonged to a man named Bernabuccio, who lost a little girl of that age at that time.
- Bernabuccio, who's present at the telling of this story, asks to see the skin behind Agnesa's ear, so that he can look for an identifying scar.
- Wouldn't you know, she not only has the scar, she looks just like Bernabuccio's wife!
- Not only are father and daughter reunited, but another problem is solved. Bernabuccio is Giannole's father, too. He clearly can't marry his sister, because ew.
- So Minghino wins the day, getting the girl because they don't have matching DNA.