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The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
註釋What was the influence of the Decameron on the genesis and shape of the Canterbury Tales? In this collection, leading scholars of Chaucer and Boccaccio offer original, provocative answers to this question in light of recurring critical resistance to the idea of the Decameron as a text for Chaucer. Individual essays examine Chaucer's place in the literary landscape of trecento Italy that included Boccaccio and Petrarch, both heirs, like Chaucer himself, to Dante's achievement; the ideas of history, ...