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For the occasion, I decided to recite the Decameron in Spanish. I hope you like it.
Masetto da Lamporecchio becomes mute and becomes the gardener of a women's monastery, all of whom go to bed with him.
Beautiful women, many are among those men and women who are foolish, believing very well that, as a young lady has a white bandage on her head and a black neckline on the missal [1], she will no longer be feminine nor feel any more feminine appetite, as if turning her into a nun had turned her into a stone; And if they hate something against their belief, it is for this reason that they are troubled as if a great and poorly chosen act had been committed against nature, without thinking or wanting to have respect for oneself, which is the total dispensation of being able to do what they want but cannot satisfy, nor yet the great forces of idleness and solitude. And, in the same way, there are still many who believe very well that the hoe and the spade and the abundant food and annoyances completely remove the concupiscent appetites of the workers of the land and make them very great in intellect and foresight. But as all those who believe are deceived, I would like, after the queen commanded me to do so, without deviating from the proposal she made, to explain with a little story.
In these neighborhoods, there existed, and still exist, some very famous holy women's monasteries (which I will not name so as not to partly diminish their fame), in which, not long ago, since then there were more than eight women with an abbess, and all young, he was a good man in one of their beautiful gardens as a gardener, who, not content with the salary, defended himself with the women’s butler [2], in Lamporecchio [3], where he went, returned. There, among the others who gladly took him in, was a strong and robust young worker and, according to the villager [4], a handsome person with a very pleasant face, whose name was Masetto; and asking where he had been for so long. The good man, whose name was Nuto, told him. Masetto asked what the ministry was for.
To which Nuto replied: - I worked in a beautiful and large garden of theirs and, moreover, he sometimes went to the woods to fetch firewood, drew water, and did other chores; But the women paid me so little that I could hardly buy my shoes. And, moreover, they are all young, and it seems to me that they have the devil in their bodies because nothing can be done their way; besides, when I sometimes worked in the garden, I would say to myself: - Put this here -; and the other: - Put it here -; and the other took the spade from my hand and said: - This is not good -; and they bothered me so much that I left the job alone and left the garden; so that, between one thing and another, I didn't want to stay any longer and left. On the contrary, their butler begged me, when I left, that if I had anyone in my hands who would come like that, I would send him to him, and I promised him; but God knows as much about kidneys as I will seek him out or not send him any. [5] Hearing Nuto's words, Masetto had such a great desire to be with those nuns that he was completely consumed by them, understanding in Nuto’s words what should be done with him, wished. And warning himself that he would not have done it if he had told Nuto, he said: "How good it was for you to come!" What is a man to star among women? I would be better off with demons: they don’t know seven out of six times what they want to be. [6]
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Beautiful women, many are those men and women who are foolish, who believe all too well that... making her a nun had turned her into a stone.
Masetto had such a great desire to be with these nuns, that he was consumed by it, understanding through Nuto’s words what he had to do to satisfy his wishes.
