Neifile Timeline and Summary

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Neifile Timeline and Summary

  • Neifile falls in with her friends at the church of Santa Maria Novella and stays on to pray and chat.
  • She objects to Pampinea's proposal to include the young men; they're in love with some of the ladies in their group and that could get complicated.
  • Filomena elects her to be queen at the end of the second day and she blushes. Neifile chooses the theme of "Ingenuity and Industry" for her reign.
  • Neifile also establishes the custom of suspending their storytelling on Fridays and Saturdays so they can complete religious observances and wash up.
  • Also at the end of the second day, Neifile proposes that they move to another palace to continue their storytelling.
  • At the end of her reign on the third day, she elects Filostrato as king and has some lively banter with him.
  • Neifile sings the ballad "I am so young" at the conclusion of the ninth day.