Boccaccio Day 10 Story 10

Throughout this story, I was amazed by how Gualtieri continually needed to test his bride in such a sadistic manner.  Perhaps sadistic is the wrong word because he intended to discover if she was truly going to make him happy in life and did not necessarily derive pleasure from her pain.  Anyway, he was wrong to put her through this series of tests solely for his own benefit for over a decade.  He should not make his bride suffer just because he is so determined to prove that a woman cannot make him happy in life.  Maybe he is just destined to be miserable and should not drag a woman into his anguish.  Gualtieri should have been reprimanded and demoted in class, although I am aware that only birth determines class and nothing else.  It is surprising how his wife puts up with all this without getting an ulcer of some sort.  She deserves a promotion in standing without a doubt.