Assignment An author’s choices about what to include when telling a story show what the author thinks is important for the reader to understand about that story. Read the excerpts by Christine de Pizan and Giovanni Boccaccio that are on Canvas. Compare the texts and consider the attitudes and agendas about women that the two authors display through the way that they tell the stories. How different are Christine’s versions of the stories from Boccaccio’s, do the differences show that the two authors had different views about the nature of women, and, if so, in which ways do they differ?
