He falls in love with a girl of a noble family, the daughter of Paul Traversari. Nastagio degli Onesti is a noble in Ravenna, made rich after the death of his father and uncle. The eighth story of the fifth day, it tells of the unrequited love of the nobleman Nastagio for a girl who will eventually be induced to accept Nastagio's affection by the appearance of a rejected lover and her beloved. Nastagio degli Onesti is the protagonist in one of the one hundred short stories contained in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Botticelli, Marriage of Nastagio degli Onesti, Florence, Palazzo Pucci
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