Abstract
The last tale in Boccaccio's Decameron describes the case of a bizarre marriage between Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo, and Griselda, a lowborn female sheperd. Gualtieri, a violent master whose madness Boccaccio defines as «matta bestialita», tests his wife’s virtues and faithfulness through a series of trickeries. Analysing the Aristotelian and Thomistic echoes of the tale, what clearly comes out is Griselda’s meekness: a subtlety of resistance to the enforcement of harassment. The article aims at portraying Griselda as a discourse on virtue which is the final result of a dialectic union between falsehood and frankness.
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