Chaucer and the 'Filostrato'
- Author / Editor
- Windeatt, Barry.
Chaucer and the 'Filostrato'
- Published
- Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 163-83.
- Description
- Chaucer's use of Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" as a source for his TC demonstrates three major kinds of creative "translacioun": innovative translation of specific words/phrases and lines, brief additions of phrases and lines, and the interpolation of longer passages.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Italian Trecento.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.