By Lauretta
Madonna Nonna de' Pulci, by a sharp repartee, silences the Bishop of Florence for an unseemly piece of raillery.
NOVEL IV
By Neifile
Chichibio, cook to Currado Gianfiliazzi, by a prompt rejoinder which he makes to his master, turns his wrath into laughter, and escapes the punishment with which he had threatened him.
Appeared in Tarlton's News out of Purgatorie (1590), No. 4.
NOVEL V
By Pamfilo
Forese da Rabatta and Giotto the painter, coming from Mugello, jest at the meanness of each other's appearance.