In many of Baccaccio's stories the friars and nuns are never really holy and it's true today that the spiritual figures that are around are not as holy as we thought. These spiritual leaders are suppose to be setting examples yet they go around doing what we are told are sinful and we should not be doing. In this story about the nobleman turned friar who still indulged in his regular activities, Baccaccio vents out about how he feels about those who claim to be holy and one with God, to be servants of the Lord. He mentions on pages 489-499 how friars "dress up in finely dyed, elegant garments" (Boccaccio, 499) rather than the "coarse, woolen robes of natural colors made to keep out the cold rather than to appear stylish." (Boccaccio, 499) He also mentioned the way their cells were stored with bottles that contain liquor and perfume and it more resembled an apothecary than a friars cell.
The theme I believe is lust or how humans no matter what are driven by nature, by desire and sins are ever present and are in everyone no matter who you are. Though they try to use excuse to get out of it sin is sin and there is no way to mask it.

In the story about the wife who trick her jealous husband there is a whole paragraph, a type of prologue to the story that talks of how women should be praised and comended for standing up for themselves against the husbands that wrong them. Also, women should not be caged as if animals, they are human too and deserve to be free and have a day of rest. Women should not be the only ones punished when they commit a crime but men should too. I think today it had progressed a little but there is still a double standard when it comes to men and women. Men aren't always punished the same as women and they are punished differently at times too for the same crime committed.

"in a region which is called Bengodi, where they tie up vineyards with sausages and where you can have a goose for a penny and a gosling thrown in for good measure, and there was a mountain there made entirely of grated Parmesian chess upon which lived people who did nothing but make macaroni and ravioli" (Baccaccio, 565) this was comedic in a way where who would fall for that but then you find that Calandrino really believes it.
"being a woman she can cause everything to lose it's power" (Baccaccio, 572) this quote just stood out to me and it was like of course you would blame a woman for your troubles instead of yourself.


In the story about the scholar who got duped and then got revenge on the lady and her maidservant at the end, I found the story to be myers ting but cruel. I took the side of Rinieri and I think that was the one that Boccaccio wanted his readers to take sympathy for at first, but then you have to have some sympathy for Elena who, the poor thing is out there with no sunblack and is becoming dehydrated and she is not looking good and she begs Rinieri to let her go and give her her clothes, leave her with her honor but she doesn't see that she stripped him of his so why should he let her keep hers. Besides everyone knew already what was going on between the two of them and her ex lover. She was just being foolish and she was vain to think that her beauty could over come anything. It almost did her almost didn't go through with it but he reminded himself of what he went through and he got focused again. When it comes to intelligence it is that one should not over think and believe that they have something in the bag, then realize it never really was captured and secured it in the first place. She went to far keeping him out there for so long she overstepped her bounds. She got cocky and believed that she not only got her man bit made a fool of another so easily and in the end she was easily duped.
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