Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Finlayson, John.
Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Studies in Philology 97: 255-75, 2000.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer used Boccaccio's version of the Griselda story in addition to Petrarch's. A number of Chaucer's alterations and additions to Petrarch have a "strong, often detailed relationship" to Boccaccio, Petrarch's own source.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.