Below is a brief summary of the story of Frate Cipolla, contained in the famous book by Giovanni Boccaccio the 'Decameron. " Source: Yahoo Answers. A
Certaldo is a brother of Friar Cipolla who has very little, being he is a joker and a great rhetorical.
One day, Brother Cipolla, promises to the farmers present at Mass, to show them an important relic: the pen of the archangel Gabriel.
Two old friends, very smart, organized a hoax by subtracting the pen to the monk. While Friar Cipolla is out to lunch and his servant is distracted by a girl, the two come into his room, found the box containing a feather parrot, which he said was an angel, and fill the box after removal with some coals.
In the afternoon, when the relic show, Brother Cipolla, opening the box, notice of the coals and, without showing any surprise, a sudden history for which, among other relics he owns, there are two identical boxes for feather and for coal which was burned with S. Lorenzo.
then saying it was wrong box, shows a very "successful" the coals.
The farmers also pleased and honored to make vain mockery of the two robbers who amazed and amused by the remedy of Friar Cipolla, make it the pen that had been stolen.
