Boccaccio’s Early Romances.

Author / Editor
Ginsberg, Warren.

Title
Boccaccio’s Early Romances.

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 303-24.

Description
Treats Boccaccio's romances, concentrating on "Filostrato" and "Teseida," "as if they were intralingual translations,' by analyzing the collusion and contravention of the narratives' aims by their own prologues. These prologues, apparently unknown or ignored by Chaucer, "nevertheless produced poems that are [Walter] Benjamin-like translations of them."

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations