'Vitalizing Alchemy': Fourteenth-Century Transformations of Boccaccio's Tale of Patient Griselda
- Author / Editor
- Saycell, Kenneth J.
'Vitalizing Alchemy': Fourteenth-Century Transformations of Boccaccio's Tale of Patient Griselda
- Published
- Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe/Italian Studies in Southern Africa 5 (1992): 79-102.
- Description
- Discusses the progressive changes in versions of the Griselda story from Boccaccio's "Decameron" to ClT. Chaucer's poetic version, the culmination of these changes, reveals many of the problems in the original story.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.