'Peynted Confessioun': Boccaccio and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Taylor, Paul Beekman.

Title
'Peynted Confessioun': Boccaccio and Chaucer

Published
Comparative Literature 34 (1982): 116-29.

Description
In Panfilo's tale of Ser Ciappelletto in the "Decameron," we are directed to respond, disapproving, to that character's hypocrisy, but the Pardoner, in the tradition of philosophical nominalism, so confuses the differences among word, intent, and deed that we are never certain how sincere or how hypocritical he is.

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