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Arriguccio Berlinghieri
In Neifile’s seventh tale (VII, 8), Sismonda is Arriguccio Berlinghieri’s wife and Ruberto’s lover. She demonstrates quick wit when she avoids Arriguccio’s wrathful punishment on discovering her means of communicating with her lover, but she sacrifices the safety of her maid to do so. Having made her husband look like a fool, she continues her affair with impunity.
Monna Sismonda Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Monna Sismonda or refer to Monna Sismonda. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Day 7: Eighth Tale
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God in heaven, you think he had picked you up out of the gutter! […] These country yokels, they move into town after serving as cut-throat to some petty rustic tyrant, and wander about the streets in rags and tatters, their trousers all askew, with a quill sticking out from their backsides, and no sooner do they get a few pence in their pockets than they want the daughters of noble gentlemen and fine ladies for their wives. And they devise a coat of arms for themselves and go about saying: “I belong to such-and-such a family” and “My people did so-and-so.”
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Monna Sismonda Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Monna Sismonda or refer to Monna Sismonda. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Day 7: Eighth Tale
Quotes
God in heaven, you think he had picked you up out of the gutter! […] These country yokels, they move into town after serving as cut-throat to some petty rustic tyrant, and wander about the streets in rags and tatters, their trousers all askew, with a quill sticking out from their backsides, and no sooner do they get a few pence in their pockets than they want the daughters of noble gentlemen and fine ladies for their wives. And they devise a coat of arms for themselves and go about saying: “I belong to such-and-such a family” and “My people did so-and-so.”
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