Left alone in that building, Bellindia began to wander around all the rooms, and when it was time for lunch, she went to the living room where she found the table set. While she was eating, there was a loud roar that put a great fear on the poor girl, and the Wizard appeared in front of her, who said: "Don't be afraid, Bellindia. I just want to know if you love me." And Bellindia replied, "Yes, I do." And the Wizard: "So would you marry me?" "Oh, no, that's not it," replied the girl, and then the Wizard disappeared. And so, every day at the hour of eating, the same thing happened, with the Wizard who asked the same identical questions in Bellindia; so, very soon, the girl began to be no longer afraid of the Wizard, and to really love him: but to marry him, there was no talk of it.
After several months, Bellindia received a letter from her father, inviting her to her sister Assunta's wedding with a rich woodcutter. She waited for lunch, and asked the Wizard for permission to leave, and the Wizard replied: "Go puer, but remember to return within eight days, if you do not want to find me dead. Hold on to this ring; if the stone becomes black, it means I feel bad: in that case, come back immediately. Take whatever you like from the palace and bring it as a gift to your sister, and put it all in a trunk tonight. But remember to come back within eight days." Bellinda said, "Don't doubt it, I'll be back in eight days." Then, he took the trunk and filled it with silk clothes, fine linen, jewels and money, and rested it at the foot of the bed, as the Wizard had told her, and in the morning, when he woke up, he found himself in the daddy's house with all the trunk. At first, they gave her great compliments, but when the sisters felt that she was so rich and happy, that they didn't miss anything, they began to roar from envy, and they even managed to take away the Wizard's ring with the excuse of holding it a little to her finger. Bellindia was desperate, because she could no longer control the stone of the ring, and when it was the seventh day, she cried and prayed so much, that her father ordered the sisters to return the ring immediately, and she, as soon as she looked at him, saw that the stone had darkened a lot, so that, the next morning she wanted to leave at all costs, and her father had to accompany her and left her there. At lunch the Wizard did not appear, and Bellindia, worried, stayed for a long time to call him and look for him, but did not find him. He came to dinner, and Bellindia found him very wasted. And he told her: "Know, Bellindia, that I almost risked dying; if I had waited a little longer to come back, you would certainly have found me dead. That, by chance, you don't love me anymore?" "Of course I do," she replied. "And would you marry me?" asked the Wizard. "Oh, no, that's not it," replied Bellindia.
Two more months passed, and one day another letter arrived from the father announcing the imminent marriage of his sister Carolina. Also that time, the Wizard allowed Bellindia to leave, but he made the same recommendations, gave her the ring again and told her to return on time if he did not want to find him dead. And the next day Bellindia found herself again at her father's house with her trunk full of gifts for her sister; and when they saw her, the sisters went to meet her with a forced smile, because the hatred devoured her. In particular, Assunta, became even more mischievous and angry, because her husband, a woodcutter, beat her every day for her bad behaviour. Bellindia told them all the events of the last time, and said that this time she should return at all costs to her Wizard, who treated her so well. The sisters, however, at those speeches, put me in mind to make a misfortune happen to her, and with an excuse whatever they took away her ring, and did not want to give it back until the end of the eight-day deadline, and at that point the stone had become almost completely black. At that frightening spectacle, Bellindia was missed, and the next morning she wanted to leave at all costs, and the bad sisters were all happy to see her in tears, because they believed that the Wizard had died a long time ago, and so, they thought, would end the good fortune of her sister.
When Bellindia arrived at the palace, the Wizard missed both lunch and dinner, and no one saw him. Desperate, Bellindia began to look for him everywhere, and, turns here, turns there, finally finds him in the garden, under the roses, lying on the ground as if dead. Bellindia, desperate, threw herself at him, hugged him, kissed him crying, complaining that because of him the misfortune had happened to him: "Now there is no good for me! Poor my treasure! If you were alive, I would marry you immediately to make you happy. To these words, the Wizard straightened himself reinvigorated, and at the same time, from ugly wizard turned into a beautiful young man. And he said, "Thank you, my Bellindia. Know that I am a son of a king, and I was the victim of a spell cast by a fairy, so, I could not return to man until a girl appeared in my life able to consent to marry me despite my terrible appearance. So now you will be my bride and the Queen of my kingdom. Bellinda, all dazed and stunned, was no longer in herself with joy. They sent for the merchant to be called with their eldest daughters, and they celebrated grandiosely the marriage of Bellindia to the prince; but Assunta and Carolina were expelled to punish them for the hatred they had shown their sister, and so much was their anger, that they both fell to the death of both.
Bellindia left with her husband in her new kingdom, together they remained there, happy and happy all their lives.
The END