# Arriguccio Berlinghieri — The Decameron character guide

> Arriguccio Berlinghieri in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Arriguccio

**First appearance:** 0083-the-eighth-story

## Snapshot

A Florentine merchant whose suspicious vigilance over his restless wife turns him into the unwitting fool of his own household.

## Who they are

Arriguccio belongs to that anxious class of prosperous merchants who measure honor in appearances and guard their wives like warehouses. Convinced of his own shrewdness, he watches, tests, and schemes, only to find his certainty turned against him by a wife quicker than his suspicions. His humiliation matters because it exposes how easily male authority collapses when cleverness meets desire, a recurring joke and warning throughout the Decameron's middle days.

## In the story

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

A wealthy merchant who becomes jealous of his wife and discovers her trick with the twine.

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