# Aldobrandino Palermini — The Decameron character guide

> Aldobrandino Palermini in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Aldobrandino

**First appearance:** 0106-the-seventh-story

## Snapshot

A courteous Ravenna gentleman whose hospitality draws a wandering, heartbroken Nastagio into the pinewood where a ghostly hunt changes everything.

## Who they are

Aldobrandino belongs to the well-born society of Ravenna whose feasts and hunts frame the world Nastagio flees and returns to. His generous table is the kind of ordinary civility against which Boccaccio sets the supernatural terror of the pinewood and the harsh lesson it teaches about love and cruelty. He matters because the story's early movement — from city dinner to forest vision — depends on the social world he represents.

## Relationships

### [Tedaldo Elisei](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/tedaldo_elisei)

_family_

Aldobrandino Palermini is the brother of Tedaldo Elisei, and their relationship involves family conflict and eventual reconciliation.

### [Tedaldo Elisei](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/tedaldo_elisei)

_family_

Aldobrandino Palermini is the brother of Tedaldo Elisei, and their relationship involves family conflict and eventual reconciliation.

## In the story

### [The Seventh Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/chapters/the-seventh-story)

Husband of Ermellina, wrongly accused and imprisoned for the murder of Tedaldo, whom he believed dead.

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