Talano d'Imolese
Intro
- Storyteller: Pampinea
- Pampinea reminds everyone that they've told stories about dreams before (IV.5 and IV.6), but she's going to tell another one.
- This one will be even better than the others, because it happened to her neighbor, for reals.
Story
- Talano has a beautiful but argumentative wife named Margarita who caused his life to be somewhat of a living hell.
- One night, Talano dreams that his wife was walking in some beautiful woods by their house when a wolf grabs her by the throat.
- In the dream, Margarita's throat is shredded to ribbons. Talano is disturbed by his dream and decides to warn his wife.
- He tells her that even though she makes his life miserable, he'd be sorry to see something bad happen to her and warns her to stay inside that day.
- Margarita tells him to buzz off—she'll do what she pleases. Moreover, she's pretty certain he's going to meet some loose woman or other in the woods and that's why he's trying to scare her away.
- So when Talano leaves the house, Margarita takes herself straight to the woods so she can catch him in the act.
- Sure enough, a gigantic wolf appears and drags her off by her throat.
- Margarita is saved by shepherds, who startle the creature into dropping her.
- However, her throat and face and aren't a pretty sight, and even with the help of the best Beverly Hills plastic surgeons, her beauty's been destroyed.
- That's what you get, says Pampinea, when you're stubborn and willful and don't listen to your husband.
- Well, excu-u-u-se me.