# Messer Angiolieri — The Decameron character guide

> Messer Angiolieri in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Angiolieri

**First appearance:** 0077-the-second-story

## Snapshot

A jealous Sienese husband whose suspicion of his wife becomes the very instrument by which she and her lover outwit him.

## Who they are

Messer Angiolieri guards his marriage with the vigilance of a man who trusts no one, and his jealousy curdles the household into a theater of surveillance and resentment. His wife, far from being cowed, turns his watchfulness against him, and the lover's ingenuity does the rest. His story belongs to the Decameron's recurrent comedy of husbands who mistake control for virtue, and it demonstrates that the cleverest trap is often the one the jailer builds for himself.

## Relationships

### [Messer Fortarrigo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/messer_fortarrigo)

_rivalry_

Messer Angiolieri and Messer Fortarrigo are brothers locked in a bitter, destructive rivalry that leads to mutual ruin.

### [Messer Fortarrigo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/messer_fortarrigo)

_rivalry_

Messer Angiolieri and Messer Fortarrigo are brothers locked in a bitter, destructive rivalry that leads to mutual ruin.

## In the story

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

The well-mannered young man who is robbed and humiliated by his servant Fortarrigo.

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