The Fancies Chaste and Noble

About the show

In Siena, bachelor Marquis Octavio’s Bower of Fancies is mistaken for a harem, though the three young women are his wards. A suitor’s schemes and the women’s tests of virtue drive the main plot; a spendthrift husband who sold his wife, a barber’s marriage and a separate pair of lovers add interlocking comic and romantic complications.