# Andrevuola — The Decameron character guide

> Andrevuola in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** major

**First appearance:** 0046-the-seventh-story

## Snapshot

A young horse-dealer from Perugia, vain about his looks, who walks wide-eyed into a Neapolitan trap laid with kisses and tears.

## Who they are

Andrevuola arrives in Naples to buy horses and promptly falls for a stranger's tale that he is her long-lost brother, following her to a house in the ill-named Malpertugio quarter. His vanity, his provincial trust, and his readiness to believe himself loved make him the perfect mark for a practiced con. His misadventure opens the Decameron's great sequence on the tricks fortune and clever women play on the self-satisfied.

## In the story

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

Secretly married to Gabriotto; dreams of his death; carries his body; defends her honor before the provost; becomes a nun.

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