Alibech and Rustico  

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"Alibech and Rustico" is the tenth tale on the third day in the Decamerone. In the tale Alibech becomes a female hermit, and is taught by Rustico, a monk, how the Devil is put in hell. She is afterwards conveyed thence, and becomes the wife of Neerbale.

Of course, Dioneo narrates what is by far the most obscene and bawdy tale in the Decameron. Because of its graphic nature, this tale has at times been translated incompletely, as in John Payne's translation, where Alibech's sexual awakening is left untranslated and is accompanied with this footnote: "The translators regret that the disuse into which magic has fallen, makes it impossible to render the technicalities of that mysterious art into tolerable English; they have therefore found it necessary to insert several passages in the original Italian." No known earlier versions of it exist.

In Pasolini's Decameron Patrizia Capparelli is Alibech and Jovan Jovanovic (Mlad i zdrav kao ruza) is Rustico.