 He certainly was clever enough to have created the situations and the retorts.A knight offers to carry Madonna Oretta a horseback with a story, but tells it so badly that she begs him to let her dismount.Filomena narrates this tale, which many see as revealing Boccaccio's opinion of what makes a good or bad storyteller, just as portions of "Hamlet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" contain Shakespeare's opinion of what makes a good or bad actor.