The writer Geoffrey Chaucer, escorted by the Quick knight, is in an inn together with pilgrims going to Canterbury. Since the bad weather prevents departure, the defendants entertain themselves by telling each other news. **** Dorigen, left alone by her husband Avergadus, left for war, tries to escape the pressing court of Aurelius asking him for an impossible thing, which the man however obtains by means of a mage. However, Dorigen finds a way to escape her commitment. **** Federico, in love with a widow, procures a pack of dogs for his bestial pleasures; but the woman is mauled. **** Defying the announced appointment with the Death, Giovanni, Oddo and Carlotta find in a wood a treasure, around which, by greed, they mutually remove life. **** Paying a big ransom to get back the stepdaughter and then conquer it, an old king of ancient Greece and his handyman minister, Ercole, are deceived by three swindlers, who use a prostitute.