# Tingoccio Mini — The Decameron character guide

> Tingoccio Mini in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Tingoccio

**First appearance:** 0101-the-second-story

## Snapshot

A Sienese friend who returns from the dead to report on the afterlife — and is caught off guard by one very awkward question.

## Who they are

Tingoccio and Meuccio are companions who share everything except the truth about their desire for the same woman, Tingoccio's gossip. Their rivalry, hidden beneath friendship, gives the tale its comic and moral charge. When Tingoccio dies and keeps his promise to return with news of the other world, the exchange becomes a wry, unsettling inquiry into sin, penance, and the small hypocrisies that survive death itself.

## In the story

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

One of the two Siennese friends who makes a pact to return from the dead. He becomes godfather to a child and falls in love with his gossip, leading to his death.

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