Italy | 92 min

Cast: Franco Agostini, Enzo Andronico, Alberto Atenari, Bruna Beani, Adriana Facchetti

Director: Marino Girolami

A group of people, in order to escape the plague, take refuge in the palace of Messer Gianni, who, in order to pass the time, tells some novellas. 1) Friar Pasquale undermines the young widow Piccarda and she, advised by her brothers, throws him into the arms of the ugly servant and has him caught in the act by the bishop. 2) Guidobaldo, heeding the vaticini of a gypsy woman, delivers his wife, Countess Floriana, to Rufolo di Chioggia, who has paid off the hag. 3) Friar Domenico yields to Martina's insistence and makes her penetrate the convent as far as her own cell. The prior, discovering the traffic, sends the friar to do penance and enjoys the girl. 4) Brunetta has the very jealous Gervaso as her husband: by making him spend a whole night in the cold, she manages to have a good time with Filippo, a painter. 5) Rinaldo feigns an attack by brigands to win Marcorpa, wife of the cowherd Giannotto, who on his return also has the surprise of not being believed by the guards. 6) Agilulf, having discovered Helen's adultery, cuts the hair from the nape of the neck, of the groom Rainero to expose him before the executioner and have him beheaded. But all the other servants equally cut their hair ...