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The Florentine Noblewoman appears in Filomena’s third tale (III, 3), where she is unhappily married to a wealthy but bourgeois wool merchant. Finding her husband beneath her socially, she resolves to take the Florentine Nobleman as her husband instead. She demonstrates the day’s theme—perseverance—and the cleverness that is generally celebrated in The Decameron by using the Florentine Friar as an unwitting go-between to signal her intentions to the Nobleman.
Florentine Noblewoman Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Florentine Noblewoman or refer to Florentine Noblewoman. 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 3: Third Tale
Quotes
The story I propose to relate […] should prove more agreeable to a lay audience inasmuch as the priesthood consists for the most part of extremely stupid men, inscrutable in their ways, who consider themselves in all respects more worthy and knowledgeable than other people, whereas they are decidedly inferior. They resemble pigs, in fact, for they are too feeble-minded to earn an honest living like everybody else, and so they install themselves wherever they can fill their stomachs.
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Florentine Noblewoman Quotes in The Decameron
The The Decameron quotes below are all either spoken by Florentine Noblewoman or refer to Florentine Noblewoman. 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 3: Third Tale
Quotes
The story I propose to relate […] should prove more agreeable to a lay audience inasmuch as the priesthood consists for the most part of extremely stupid men, inscrutable in their ways, who consider themselves in all respects more worthy and knowledgeable than other people, whereas they are decidedly inferior. They resemble pigs, in fact, for they are too feeble-minded to earn an honest living like everybody else, and so they install themselves wherever they can fill their stomachs.
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Explanation and Analysis:
