A Lyrical Version: Boccaccio's 'Filostrato'

Author / Editor
Natali, Giulia.

Title
A Lyrical Version: Boccaccio's 'Filostrato'

Published
Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 49-73.

Description
Unlike earlier versions of the Troilus story, Boccaccio's "Filostrato" minimizes war and focuses on love. Yet, if Troilus is less epic and more verbally effusive than his predecessors, he still is not tragic. Boccaccio identifies with Troiolo early in the poem but distances himself by the ending.

Alternative Title
The European Tragedy of Troilus.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.