# Sicurano da Finale — The Decameron character guide

> Sicurano da Finale in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Sicurano

**First appearance:** 0024-the-ninth-story

## Snapshot

A woman who lives as a man, rises to captain of a sultan's guard, and proves that disguise can outlast even the most tangled misfortunes.

## Who they are

Sicurano da Finale is a figure of extraordinary resourcefulness, a woman whose male identity carries her from obscurity to a position of trust in a foreign court. Her competence and loyalty win her authority that no one suspects is borrowed, and her story becomes a study in how identity, honor, and love survive when everything else is stripped away. She matters because her long arc of concealment and eventual recognition embodies the Decameron's fascination with fortune's reversals and the resilience of the clever.

## In the story

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

The disguised identity of Bernabo's wife, serving the Sultan.

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