

At first Lotario deceived his friend by not trying to woo Camila at all, but Anselmo discovered this, and left his wife in the care of his friend when he went away for a whole week. Despite Lotario’s resistance, they went ahead. He came up with a plan to put her virtue to the ultimate test, in which his friend would tempt her to be unfaithful. Anselmo married a fine and virtuous woman, Camila. Two good friends, Anselmo and Lotario, lived in Florence. The priest started reading one out loud, The Tale of Inappropriate Curiosity, and Cervantes then tells that story in full. Don Quixote went straight to bed, and while he was asleep the others ate and discussed books about the adventures of knights. In the previous episode, the group escorting Don Quixote back to his village had reached the inn where Sancho Panza had been tossed high in the air.
