Chaucer and Boccaccio's Early Writings
- Author / Editor
- Wallace, David.
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.