How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Thus she demonstrated well the great love which she had for her husband, as Boccaccio himself noted, approving the marriage bond which others want to attack. (2.15.1)
Even the great Italian poet Boccaccio has said that marriage is a great thing and that wives are capable of great love for their husbands. And if some two-bit dude wants to contradict a great poet like Boccaccio, he can't expect many people to listen to him.
Quote #8
Everyone should be extremely pleased that, in addition to their other virtues, such great love could reside in a woman's heart in the bond of marriage. (2.19.1)
For de Pizan, everyone should be happy when they find out that a marriage has worked out well. But it almost seems like people from her time want marriages to fail, just so they can have more evidence to support their cynical view of the world.
Quote #9
However, he did not know precisely how he could find wives for himself and his companions, for the Sabine kings and princes and countrymen did not want to give them their daughters in marriage because the Romans seemed extremely unstable to the Sabine. (2.33.1)
In this story, de Pizan talks about how a certain group of dudes didn't want their daughters to marry another group of dudes. Note how the people who have no say in this decision are the actual women getting married.