Question 1: Deceit

[Diana S]

1) Caterina's life seems, from the beginning of the story to the last page, to be based on deceit. Did this bother you at all? Do you think she should have regretted it more, or do you think the ends justified the means?
Did you find it believable that Caterina fooled as many people as she did with her disguise?

[Carol]

Caterina deceived the man who was Leonardo's father. He took Leonardo from Caterina with the promise to marry her. Didn't happen.

She also disguised herself as a man. She learned from her father the ways that men would walk, talk, and their habits and mannerisms that would be best for her to know. She with those new skills was able to open a shop that she could not have done if she was a woman.

[Diana S]

The First of the deceit, of Leonardo's father and his family to Caterina. Taking Leonardo like that from Caterina was heart-breaking and the way he treated her after he promised to marry her. Jerk!
Second, if it wasn't for Caterina's father. She wouldn't have been to pull it off. He taught her how men talked, walked, and many other mannerisms that she need to know to survived or even open a shop of Alchemy in the city where Leonardo would be. Do I think it justified the means. In this case, I do! She would never experience or accomplished all her had has a woman.