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Boccaccio's Il Fiostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Although in Troilus and Criseyde Chaucer frequently acknowledges the authority of his sources and does not change the story's "predestined" course, his work is neither a mere translation nor yet another version of the same story but a work significantly different from the works of his predecessors. Namely, Chaucer expands the focus of the inherited story from its thematic gist of love and betrayal to the process of its reading and, what is even more significant, the process of its making. Chaucer fuses two love stories-- Troilo and Criseis and Filostrato and Filomena- -in a game of fiction and actual life, as suggested in the proem of Boccaccio's work.

Il Filostrato, Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, proem, sources

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