Love, Passion and Pleasure (1972) on Netflix

Plot summary

In the Middle Ages, Cecco Angiolieri earns his bread in taverns and public squares by reciting the Decameron, favoring its most licentious tales of amorous nuns and friars and of wives who outwit their old husbands. He joins Camillo's troupe of storytellers and acrobats, and finds Camillo a man easy to fool. By inventing contagious childhood diseases he keeps Camillo away and takes his place with Camillo's wife, Dinda. When the troupe reaches a city ruled by the poetaster ser Gianni, Cecco turns his gift for verse to winning a license for his companions to perform, and to winning over Tessa. Mother Lucrezia, the fierce new superior of the local monastery, is another woman in his sights.