[2] In Sicily, in the town of Messina, Maestro Lattantio had learned to be both a magician and a tailor.
Lattantio, finding the horse gone, got his daughters to tell him what had happened, and turned himself into a tunny to chase Dionigi.
Dionigi swam near the shore, and jumped into a basket carried by a handmaiden of the king's daughter, turning himself into a ruby ring.
At night, when she went to bed, he changed into his own form, prevented her from screaming, and explained his plight; she promised to help him as long as he respected her honor.
Dionigi told her that the man was his enemy, and that she should bring the ring and when giving it, throw it against the wall as if in a temper.