Beritola Caracciolo appears in Emilia’s second tale (II, 6). She is Arrighetto Capece’s wife and mother of Guisfredi and The Outcast. Like her husband and sons, she is an illustration of fortune’s turns: she flees political imprisonment in Sicily but is castaway on an island and loses her children to pirates. She becomes attached to two fawns in their place and, when she’s rescued by Currado Malespina and brings them along, she earns the nickname “Cavriuola” which means “doe.” After many years, she is happily reunited with her children and husband.