King Frederick of Sicily appears in Pampinea’s fifth tale (V, 6). He has a taste for beautiful women, so he receives Restituta as a gift from pirates. He is outraged to discover his “property” in Gianni’s arms and initially sentences the lovers to execution. However, when he realizes that they are both from the nobility, political and class concerns override his desire for revenge, and he oversees their wedding before sending them triumphantly home. His generosity to these lovers echoes other generous sovereigns described on Day X.