# Spinelloccio Tanena — The Decameron character guide

> Spinelloccio Tanena in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Spinelloccio

**First appearance:** 0081-the-sixth-story

## Snapshot

A Sienese friend so entangled with his neighbor's wife that discovery forces him to share her openly rather than lose the friendship.

## Who they are

Spinelloccio carries on an affair with the wife of his closest friend, Zeppa, believing the deception safe until Zeppa catches him hidden in a chest and feels the truth over his own head. Caught between shame and the bonds of long friendship, he proposes an outrageous settlement: since nothing else is shared between them, let the wives be held in common too. His willingness to convert betrayal into a pact of shared households gives the brigata one of its most cheerfully cynical tales about friendship, appetite, and the strange arithmetic of honor.

## Relationships

### [Zeppa di Mino](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/zeppa_di_mino)

_friendship_

Spinelloccio and Zeppa are friends who end up in a complicated situation involving mutual infidelity, but they resolve it with humor and compromise.

### [Zeppa di Mino](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/zeppa_di_mino)

_friendship_

Spinelloccio and Zeppa are friends who end up in a complicated situation involving mutual infidelity, but they resolve it with humor and compromise.

### [Zeppa di Mino](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/zeppa_di_mino)

_friendship_

Spinelloccio and Zeppa are friends who end up in a complicated situation involving mutual infidelity, but they resolve it with humor and compromise.

## In the story

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

A young man of Siena who begins an affair with his friend Zeppa's wife, leading to a cunning revenge.

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