Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Friars

Author / Editor
Havely, Nicholas (R.)

Title
Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Friars

Published
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 249-68.

Description
Discusses the friar, comparing Chaucer's anticlericalism to Boccaccio's in the "Decameron."

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the Italian Trecento.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.