# Zeppa di Mino — The Decameron character guide

> Zeppa di Mino in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Zeppa

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

## Snapshot

A Sienese husband who catches his best friend in his wife's bed and answers the betrayal with a symmetry all four of them end up living with.

## Who they are

Zeppa and Spinelloccio are the closest of neighbors and friends, which makes the discovery of Spinelloccio's affair with Zeppa's wife cut twice as deep. Rather than rage, Zeppa stages a counter-deception that leaves his friend trapped in a chest and forced to negotiate. The result — a household where the two couples share everything, wives included — is one of the Decameron's most audacious arguments that cleverness, not vengeance, settles scores.

## Relationships

### [Spinelloccio Tanena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/spinelloccio_tanena)

_friendship_

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

### [Spinelloccio Tanena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/spinelloccio_tanena)

_friendship_

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

### [Spinelloccio Tanena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_decameron_se/characters/spinelloccio_tanena)

_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)

The wronged husband who discovers the affair and devises a balanced revenge by seducing Spinelloccio's wife.

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