# Ruggieri da Jeroli — The Decameron character guide

> Ruggieri da Jeroli in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Ruggieri, Jeroli

**First appearance:** 0042-the-third-story

## Snapshot

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.

## Who they are

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 is genuine but reckless, and the story tests whether passion can survive the machinery of betrayal it sets in motion. He belongs to the Decameron's long meditation on love as a force that rearranges social order, and his fate shows how thin the line is between a lover and a fool.

## In the story

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

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.

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

The king's admiral who recognizes Gianni and intervenes to save the lovers from execution.

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