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Ruggieri da Jeroli

A young Florentine whose love for a married woman draws him into a web of deception where the deceived may prove more dangerous than the deceiver.

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Also known as Ruggieri, Jeroli

First appearance: the third story

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

The lover of the physician's wife, a nobleman of ill repute who is drugged and put in a chest, then arrested as a thief before being freed.
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Ruggieri moves through Florence as a young man of family and appetite, fixed on a woman already bound to another man, and the pursuit requires him to navigate the city's codes of honor, secrecy, and revenge. His desire…

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Relationship types

  • Other

Character groups

  • Moral and Romantic Adventures
  • Marital Deception
  • Fidelity and Betrayal
  • Protagonist
  • Love and Deception
  • Storytellers of the Frame

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

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