Chaucer, Dante and Boccaccio

Author / Editor
Bennett, J. A. W.

Title
Chaucer, Dante and Boccaccio

Published
Piero Boitani, ed. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 89-113.

Description
Chaucer rarely adopted inappropriate Danteisms from Boccaccio. Some of the differences between Chaucer's TC and KnT and Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and "Teseida" may be attributed to Chaucer's understanding and appreciation of Dante.
Originally published in Geoffrey Chaucer: Conferenze Organizzate dall'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Collaborazione con la British Academy (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1977), pp. 3-22.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Conferenze Organizzate dall'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Collaborazione con la British Academy.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Knight and His Tale.