By means of a single phrase, Cisti the Baker shows Messer Geri Spina that he is being unreasonable.
Pampinea therefore began as follows: Fair ladies, I cannot myself decide whether Nature is more at fault in furnishing a noble spirit with an inferior body, or Fortune in allotting an inferior calling to a body endowed with a noble spirt, as happened in the Case of Cisti, (pronounced chees-tee) our fellow citizen, and many other people of our own acquaintance. This Cisti was a man of exceedingly lofty spirit, and yet Fortune made him a baker. Continue reading
