The stories “Federigo’s Falcon” by Giovanni Boccaccio in addition to “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer are both frame stories written in the same era. Both authors’ place several themes in each work which are prevalent plus can be seen in today’s world in many aspects of life. But the theme that unites both authors along with their stories together would be that of the importance of a union. In “Federigo’s Falcon” and “The Pardoner’s Tale” both authors employ the element of irony to convey their individual themes of the creation of a union through generosity and the destruction of a union due to greed. Author Giovanni Boccaccio reveals the recompense for generosity by exhibiting the creation of a union in his short story “Federigo’s
