Our narrators return to Florence and some new working class characters, in two stories that attempt to be tragic and come out farcical instead. In one (4.7), an attempt at medieval forensics sees a woman die in exactly the same implausible way her lover did. In the other (4.8), a spurned would-be lover stubborns himself to death, and is inexplicably joined by the woman who rejected him.

CONTENT WARNINGS: In the second story, there is a guy who REALLY doesn't know when to accept 'she's not into you'. He spends time outside a woman's house, attempts to persuade her on several occasions, then decides to sneak into her bedroom and speak to her privately in the middle of the night. He touches her chest to wake her up, and attempts to persuade her AGAIN, and when he finally accepts her refusal, he whines until she lets him lie down beside her to warm up before he goes. At that point, he stops pressing the issue.