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“Tingoccio and Meuccio“
Tingoccio Mini and Meuccio di Tura are BFFs. They love to freaked out, but manages to ask if Tingoccio has been
go to church together and listen to sermons. The sermons damned to Hell or not. Tingoccio replies that while he’s not
they’ve heard often deal with the afterlife, but they’re in Hell, he’s being severely punished for his sins. Would
confused. How do they know what really awaits them Meuccio please say some prayers and have masses said
after death? They make a pact with each other. Whoever for his soul? Meuccio promises to do this. Before Tingoccio
dies first will come back and tell the other what it’s like. leaves, Meuccio remembers to ask the important question:
Meanwhile, Tingoccio becomes godfather to the son of what punishment had he been given for sleeping with Mita,
a beautiful woman called Monna Mita. It happens that the mother of his godchild? Tingoccio reveals that when he
both Tingoccio and Meuccio fall in love with Mita.Neither was being roasted in the fire for all his other sins, he was
wants to own up to his desires. Tingoccio’s ashamed to still particularly worried about that. One of the other souls
be in lust with the mother of his godchild and Meuccio asked why he was trembling in the fire. Tingoccio tells him
thinks that if Tingoccio knows, he’ll poison Mita’s mind the reason and the soul has a good laugh at his stupidity:
against him. Tingoccio eventually overcomes his scruples sleeping with a mother of a godchild doesn’t even count
and gets Mita into bed with him. Dioneo says that things as a sin. After Tingoccio goes, Meuccio laughs at his
go so well in that department that Tingoccio worked too own stupidity he’d let several women out of his clutches
hard and got a fever that eventually killed him. True to his because they were the mothers of his godchildren. He
word, Tingoccio appears to Meuccio after death. Meuccio’s decides to be wiser in the future.
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