Description

When four suitors arrive to ask for the hands of Signor Di Lirio’s three lovely daughters, the old gentleman agrees, as long as they have the approval of their mother. And that’s where the problems begin — the old man’s wife died three years ago, and he has gone so mad with grief that he still believes she is alive.

However, one of the suitors is the town scoundrel, Giovio, who plays a series of kind-hearted but hilarious tricks that bring the father back to sanity and the intended couples otgether. Before all is done, the four men have been forced to dress up as their own mothers, and Giovio pretends to have dies and appears as his own ghost to haunt the old man’s home.