Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and Boccaccio's Filocolo Reconsidered
- Author / Editor
- Battles, Dominique.
Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and Boccaccio's Filocolo Reconsidered
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 38-59, 1999.
- Description
- Chaucer drew from more than one segment of Filocolo to design FranT. He incorporated the larger frame narrative of Florio and Biancafiore, a tale of Byzantine origin that allowed him to draw on various elements of the copious and complicated Filocolo. This interpretation explains some of the "disparities" between FranT and its Italian source.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.