Renato Cecilia

Salvatore Prevosti loses his life in an automobile accident because he was thinking of his wife Catarina (Edwige Fenech). After this everybody wears black for the rest of the film. Unless Catarina and her scheming mother Franchesca can prove she is carrying an heir, Salvatore's greedy brothers will claim his inheritance. (worldcat)

Five episodes film based on 5 stories from Boccaccio's Decameron. (bfi)

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves away from the plague that is sweeping Florence, and pass the time by recounting bawdy tales. At the conclusion of the sixth tale, the plague is declared over and everyone returns to the city. (bfi)

A simpleton living in the quarter Trastevere in Rome, Meo Patacca becomes a hero of Christianity, because of the false rumours spread around by his wife Nuccia. (bfi)