'Vitalizing Alchemy': Fourteenth-Century Transformations of Boccaccio's Tale of Patient Griselda

Author / Editor
Saycell, Kenneth J.

Title
'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.