Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Geoffrey Chaucer and Boccaccio's 'rakel hond'
- Author / Editor
- Wallace, David.
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Geoffrey Chaucer and Boccaccio's 'rakel hond'
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 88 (1987): 27-30.
- Description
- Chaucer's insertion of an imitation of a passage from the "Poetria nova," in place of the proper matter translated from "Il Filostrato," suggests Chaucer's disdain for the "rough haste" of Boccaccio's style and his "impetuosa manus" (TC 1.1067).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.