Decameron: Take 2

So I've read The Decameron over again, and very slowly. I now understand it much more than before. The discussion in classed helped as well.

I think i recall someone saying it in class, that Saladin is viewed as a "Robin Hood" type of character in The Decameron. Regardless, I agree. He's disguised as a merchant in the beginning, alongside his comrades as they traveled through Lombardy. They meet Torello, who gives them great hospitality and proceed to go on their way. Torello, doubtful as to their true identities, later decides to join Saladin-only to find out who he really is. Upon leaving, Torello makes his wife promise to re-marry if he doesn't return in the amount of time he describes, implying he will be dead.
Torello eventually meets up with Saladin once again, gets sick, Saladin "saves" him, and he returns home in enough time to be reunited with his wife.
Saladin seems to share the same heroic qualities as any other "good" guy in a classic saga. As was said in class, a knight in shining armor.
Torello returning to his wife is similar to almost every love story of a war movie that's hit the box office...with a touch of "The Notebook."