- THE NINTH DAY -
NOVEL 1. — Madonna Francesca, having two lovers,the one Rinuccio, the other Alessandro, by name, and loving neither of them, induces the one to simulate a corpse in a tomb, and the other to enter the tomb to fetch him out: whereby, neither satisfying her demands, she artfully rids herself of both. — / 323
NOVEL 2. — An abbess rises in haste and in the dark,with intent to surprise an accused nun abed with her lover: thinking to put on her veil, she puts on instead the breeches of a priest that she has with her: the nun,espying her headgear, and doing her to wit thereof, is acquitted, and thenceforth finds it easier to forgather with her lover. — / 330