In “Tenth Day: Tenth Story” by Giovanni Boccaccio, Dioneo tells the story of the marquis of Sanluzzo, a man that has no interest of taking a wife but since his vassals beg him to do it, he chooses a poor but virtuous wife and then he force them to accept her. The marquis tries to prove the fidelity of her wife and pretends to divorce her in order to marry someone younger, she passes the test and remains loyal to her husband. The avarice of the marquis is shown in his plot, the class conflict in the fact that he married a poor girl and the gender role reversal is shown when the marquis decides who he will marry. Mortality is the theme that is not addressed in the story, as no major character dies or faces a dying situation.
