'Lollius'

Author / Editor
East, W. G.

Title
'Lollius'

Published
English Studies 58 (1977): 396-98.

Description
The name "Lollius" (from "loll" "to hang out the tongue") is Chaucer's punning attempt to imitate Boccaccio's name in English ("boccaccio" "ugly mouth"), as well as to create a plausible sounding Latinate name for his supposed author.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.