 When Fabricio, regretting what he's done, bids her farwell to join a religious order, Flavia can barely hide her sorrow.Flavia resists amorous suits from two noblemen, Camillo and Vespucci, to prove her honor to her brother (Romanello) and her new husband.The comic subplot concerns the barber Secco and his marriage to Morosa, the older "religious matron" who serves as the guardian of the Fancies.