Chaucer and Boccaccio's Early Writings

Author / Editor
Wallace, David.

Title
Chaucer and Boccaccio's Early Writings

Published
Piero Boitani, ed. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 141-62.

Description
Boccaccio's "Amorosa Visione" and the Chaucer's BD and HF were deeply indebted to de Lorris, Machaut, and Dante, but Boccaccio was never comfortable with "court poems," while Chaucer used "cortesia" with subtlety and ease.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Book of the Duchess.
House of Fame.