Chaucer, Boccaccio and the Fabliaux
- Author / Editor
- Giaccherini, Enrico.
Chaucer, Boccaccio and the Fabliaux
- Published
- Italianistica: Rivista di letteratura italiana 18:2-3 (1989): 347-56.
- Description
- Examines "the different use to which Chaucer and Boccaccio have put certain raw narrative material belonging to the tradition of popular comic literature" of their cultural heritage--i.e., Chaucer's use of sources in RvT as opposed to Boccaccio's in the "Decameron" story of Pinuccio and Niccolosa. Compares and analyzes ShT and MilT within this context.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Shipman and His Tale.