# Andreuccio di Pietro — The Decameron character guide

> Andreuccio di Pietro in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Andreuccio, Pietro, Pietro Boccamazza

**First appearance:** 0016-the-first-story

## Snapshot

A young Perugian horse-dealer with five hundred florins and no street sense, who mistakes a stranger's trap for a sister's welcome.

## Who they are

Andreuccio arrives in Naples flush with cash and vanity, and his eagerness to be thought a fine young man makes him easy prey for a beautiful woman who calls him brother. His real education begins in Malpertugio, where each misadventure strips away another layer of his innocence — through a latrine, a tomb, and a stolen ring. His story is the Decameron's great comic descent into experience, a provincial boy learning that the world's kindness is rarely free.

## In the story

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

A young horse-courser from Perugia, naive and unwary, who comes to Naples to buy horses and is deceived by a courtesan posing as his sister.

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

A young Roman of worshipful family who flees with his beloved Agnolella, is captured by thieves, escapes, and is reunited with her at a castle.

## Links

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