Spinelloccio Tavena and Zeppa di Mino
Intro
- Storyteller: Fiammetta
- Fiammetta takes a little swipe at Pampinea's tale of poor Elena and promises to tell a "more entertaining story."
- This time, the injured party isn't going to insist on over-the-top revenge.
Story
- Spinelloccio and Zeppa are neighbors and friends, both with beautiful wives.
- Spinelloccio hangs out at Zeppa's house even when he's not at home, and becomes good "friends" with Zeppa's wife.
- One day, the two lovers don't realize that Zeppa's still in the house. He sees everything.
- Zeppa calls out his wife for her behavior the second that Spinelloccio leaves. He makes her promise to help him carry out his plan for revenge.
- The next day, she's to invite Spinelloccio over to the house early in the morning. Zeppa will surprise them and she's to stuff him into the chest at the foot of the bed and lock him in.
- Things go according to plan and when Zeppa has Spinelloccio securely locked in the chest, he sends his wife next door to invite Spinelloccio's wife to breakfast.
- When she gets there, Zeppa takes her upstairs to his bedroom and sets her down on the chest to explain the situation.
- He tells her the only revenge he's asking is to have sex with her. And afterward he'll give her a precious jewel as a present.
- Spinelloccio's wife decides to give Zeppa what he wants, since there are worse ways of being avenged.
- They do the deed right on top of the locked trunk where Spinelloccio's locked in.
- Afterwards, Zeppa calls his wife and opens up the chest. This is the jewel, he says, that he's giving to Spinelloccio's wife.
- They all have a good laugh at Zeppa's revenge and the men decide that since they've shared everything in the past, now they'll share wives, too.
- Fiammetta ends by saying that henceforth, each husband had two wives and each wife had two husbands—and they lived happily ever after.