Aspects of the Relationship of Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" with Benoit's "Roman de Troie" and Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale."

Author / Editor
Lumiansky, R. M.

Title
Aspects of the Relationship of Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" with Benoit's "Roman de Troie" and Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale."

Published
Italica 31 (1954): 1-7.

Description
Explores the influence of Diomede's wooing in Benoit's "Roman" on Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and the "probable connection" between the lecture on gentility in the latter and in WBT, particularly 3.1113-24.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations