Chaucer and the 'Filostrato'

Author / Editor
Windeatt, Barry.

Title
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.