knowledgeable jurist, and Master Giotto, a painter, make fun of each other's poor appearance while returning from Mugello. Panfilo narrates this tale. Sixth tale (VI, 6) Michele Scalza proves to certain young men that the Baronci are the best gentlemen in the world and the Maremma, and wins a supper. Fiammetta narrates. Seventh tale (VI, 7) Madonna Filippa, being found by her husband with her lover, is cited before the court, and by a ready and clever answer acquits herself, and brings about an alteration of the statute. Filostrato narrates this tale which modern readers with their ideas of gender equality can appreciate. Eighth tale (VI, 8) Fresco admonishes his niece not to look at herself in the glass, if it is, as she says, grievous to her to see nasty folk. Emilia narrates. Admonitions against the sin of vanity were common in the medieval era. Ninth tale (VI, 9) Guido Cavalcanti by a quip neatly rebukes certain Florentine gentlemen who had taken advantage of him. Elissa narrates. Tenth tale (VI, 10) Friar Cipolla promises to show certain country-folk a feather of the Angel Gabriel, in lieu of which he finds coals, which he claims are those with which Saint Lawrence was roasted. Dioneo narrates this story which mocks the worship of relics. The story originates in the Sanskrit collection of stories called Canthamanchari. This story—a classic from the collection—takes place in Certaldo, Boccaccio's hometown (and the location where he would later die). Friar Cipolla's name means "Brother Onion," and Certaldo was famous in that era for its onions. In the story one can sense a certain love on Boccaccio's part for the people of Certaldo, even while he is mocking them. Seventh day During the seventh day Dioneo serves as king of the brigata and sets the theme for the stories: tales in which wives play tricks on their husbands. First tale (VII, 1) Gianni Lotteringhi hears a knocking at his door at night: he awakens his wife, who persuades him that it is a werewolf, which they fall to exorcising with a prayer; whereupon the knocking ceases. Emilia tells the first tale of the day. In it Boccaccio states that he heard it from an old woman who claimed it was a true story and heard it as a child. Although we will never know if Boccaccio really did hear the story from an old woman or not