The "Litera Troili" and English Letters.
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Norman.
The "Litera Troili" and English Letters.
- Published
- Review of English Studies 16, no. 63 (1965): 233-44.
- Description
- Considers Chaucer's modifications in Troilus's letter (TC 5.1317-1421) of Boccaccio's original in "Filostrato" and of Beauvau's French translation in "Roman de Troyle et de Criseida," arguing that the changes reflect late-medieval English letter-writing practices, themselves influenced by French linguistic and epistolary models. In turn, "Chaucer's work may have encouraged the tradition of the verse epistle in the fifteenth century."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion