# Bernabo Lomellini — The Decameron character guide

> Bernabo Lomellini in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Bernabo, meseemeth Bernabo

**First appearance:** 0022-the-seventh-story

## Snapshot

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

## Who they are

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 curdles into rage and violence, setting in motion a chain of disguises, accusations, and reversals. His story matters because it asks how much a husband's pride is worth when the truth finally surfaces, and who pays the price for his vanity.

## In the story

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

Husband who is duped by Ambrogiuolo and orders his wife's death, later pardoned.

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