The Innkeeper, Goldoni's work adapted by Peter Turrini

Mirandolina, the self-confident innkeeper of a Florentine tavern, has a hard time keeping the men who are fiercely competing for her love at bay. Competing for her favor are a poor marquis who offers admiration and devotion, a wealthy count who showers her with money and generous gifts, and the waiter Fabrizio, a small-time crook from Naples who charms her with his proletarian appeal. Dejanira, a common Florentine prostitute, is to pretend to be a rich, "noble" lady according to Fabrizio's plan in order to lure the courting aristocrats. However, Mirandolina is determined to entice the fanatical woman-hater, the Cavalier of Rippafrata, using all means of feminine seduction. She succeeds in her endeavor. When the lovesick cavalier lies at her feet in hopeless passion, she torments him to the point of despair and offers her hand—to the waiter Fabrizio. The revenge of the humiliated aristocrat is bitter: he has bought Mirandolina's leased tavern from the former owner and demotes her to kitchen maid. Fabrizio is left at the mercy of the courts.