Paolo’s Daughter appears, along with her father, Paolo Traversari, and her admirer, Nastagio degli Onesti, in Filomena’s fifth tale (V, 8). Filomena implies that her pride and vanity make her spurn Nastagio’s attentions, but when he shows her a vision of the terrifying punishment another “cruel” lady receives for not returning a man’s love, she’s frightened enough to put herself at Nastagio’s disposal and to accept his proposal of marriage. She is thus an example of the medieval stereotype of the “cruel” lady reformed.