Love in the 'Filostrato'

Author / Editor
apRoberts, Robert [P.]

Title
Love in the 'Filostrato'

Published
Chaucer Review 7.1 (1972): 1-26.

Description
Suggests that Chaucer purges "sensuality" from Boccaccio's "Filostrato" when he adapts it as TC, and demonstrates in detail where the quality is consistently present in the Boccaccio's poem.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations