Characters in The Decameron

King of Sicily (1226-1285)

Italian poet (1258-1300)

Italian noble

Italian physician and diplomat (1210-1298)

Italian painter (c.1290-1340)

thumb|Dante meets Ciacco. Engraving by Gustave Doré Ciacco () is a key character in the third circle of hell in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri that was not yet well defined by historians. This is how he presents himself to Dante when he is in Hell:

character from European folklore

character from Boccaccio's Decameron (V, 8)

13th-century Italian brigand