Il potere della fortuna. "Bocca baciata non perde ventura, anzi rinnova come fa la luna"

Panfilo -most surely Boccacccio’s alter ego- sends us to the Near East to tell us about Alatiel’s story, the Sultan of Babylon’s daughter. She was an attractive young Saracen whose charms and beauty made nine rich men succumb in different occasions.
In “The Power of Fortune”, Panfilo narrates the adventures and misfortunes caused by beauty and wealth, by the desire of having them or by the idea of being taken by them and how their results are viewed through pretending values.
The image of these ten deadly but beautiful dolls, seven young women and three men, depicts the ending line of this story: the seventh Tale in the second day of the Decameron. At this point Alatiel concludes that
"Bocca baciata non perde ventura,
anzi rinnova come fa la luna"