# Madam Beritola Caracciola — The Decameron character guide

> Madam Beritola Caracciola in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Madam Beritola, Beritola

**First appearance:** 0021-the-sixth-story

## Snapshot

A noblewoman shipwrecked into grief and solitude, she survives on a deserted island with only goats and her lost sons' memory for company.

## Who they are

Beritola loses her husband to political exile, her sons to pirates, and herself to a cave on the island of Ponza, where she lives wild and half-clothed until a hunting party finds her. Her refusal to return to the world is the story's sharpest tension: grief has become identity. Currado Malespina's household gradually draws her back, and her slow reentry into society sets the stage for the reunions that the tale's second half works toward.

## In the story

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

Loses her husband and sons, stranded on Ponza, rescued by Currado, later reunited with her sons.

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

The quick-witted wife who manages two lovers and her husband in a tense situation.

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