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Bernabo Lomellini

A Genoese merchant whose boastful wager on his wife's fidelity becomes the instrument of his own public humiliation and slow vindication.

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Also known as Bernabo, meseemeth Bernabo

First appearance: the seventh story

As a major figure in The Decameron, Bernabo Lomellini is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Husband who is duped by Ambrogiuolo and orders his wife's death, later pardoned.
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Bernabo is a man of trade and confidence, the kind who stakes his honor on a claim about his wife as casually as on a cargo. When a rival takes his bet and manufactures false proof of her infidelity, Bernabo's certainty…

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AMAmbrogiuoloCACatellaNDNastagio degli…GDGianni di Proc…BRBrunoBLBernabo Lomellini

Relationship types

  • Other

Character groups

  • Fidelity and Betrayal
  • Love and Deception
  • Pranks and Gullibility

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SetupEscalationClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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