 In these stories a person either has painfully acquired something or has lost it and then regained it.Masetto da Lamporecchio feigns to be mute, and obtains a gardener's place at a convent of women, who with one accord make haste to lie with him.Filostrato's tale of a man's devices that he employs to enjoy the physical company of a convent of nuns was also in "Cento Novelle Antiche" from the 13th century.