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Andreuccio di Pietro appears in Fiammetta’s second tale (II, 5). He is a wealthy but inexperienced and naïve horse dealer. He illustrates fortune’s turns: when he travels to Naples for fresh stock, he flashes his purse too many times and falls victim to the Sicilian Woman’s con but escapes being murdered. Then he bumbles into a botched tomb robbery after which his associates leave him for dead in the tomb. But he luckily escapes in possession of a valuable ruby ring. He has a later counterpart in Salabaetto (VIII, 10), who runs into a very similar situation.
Andreuccio di Pietro Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Andreuccio di Pietro or refer to Andreuccio di Pietro. 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 2: Fifth Tale
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Nature demanded that he should relieve his belly, which was inordinately full, so he asked […] where he could do it, and the boy showed him a door in one of the corners of the room […] Andreuccio passed jauntily through, and chanced to step on to a plank, which came away at its other end from the beam on which it was resting, so that it flew up in the air and fell into the lower regions, taking Andreuccio with it. Although he had fallen from a goodly height, he mercifully suffered no injury; but he got himself daubed from head to foot in the filthy mess with which the place was literally swimming.
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Andreuccio di Pietro Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Andreuccio di Pietro or refer to Andreuccio di Pietro. 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 2: Fifth Tale
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Nature demanded that he should relieve his belly, which was inordinately full, so he asked […] where he could do it, and the boy showed him a door in one of the corners of the room […] Andreuccio passed jauntily through, and chanced to step on to a plank, which came away at its other end from the beam on which it was resting, so that it flew up in the air and fell into the lower regions, taking Andreuccio with it. Although he had fallen from a goodly height, he mercifully suffered no injury; but he got himself daubed from head to foot in the filthy mess with which the place was literally swimming.
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