 Boccaccio, though, may have directly taken the tale from "The Seven Wise Masters", which, although oriental in origin, was widely circulating in Latin at the time the "Decameron" was written.Elissa narrates.Ricciardo Minutolo loves the wife of Filippello Fighinolfi, and knowing her to be jealous, makes her believe that his own wife is to meet Filippello at a Turkish bath house on the ensuing day; whereby she is induced to go thither, where, thinking to have been with her husband, she discovers that she has tarried with Ricciardo.