Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale

Author / Editor
Finlayson, John.

Title
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.