LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
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Dante’s Divine Comedy
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Boccaccio’s Decameron
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Montaigne’s Essays
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Detailed explanation-1: -A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio’s Decameron and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, has long tantalized readers because these works share many stories, which are, moreover, placed in similar frames.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Yes, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron inspired The Canterbury Tales. Boccaccio completed his collection of tales by 1353.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Canterbury Tales, frame story by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in Middle English in 1387–1400. The framing device for the collection of stories is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent.
Detailed explanation-4: -Of the three, Boccaccio was the one on whom Chaucer drew most heavily, and in some sense strove to emulate; Chaucer based Troilus on Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato and his Knight’s Tale on Il Teseida, and Chaucer’s elaborate high style owes something to Boccaccio’s attempt to emulate the classics in his own vernacular.
Detailed explanation-5: -But it is a romance by Boccaccio, the Filostrato, that is most closely worked on by Chaucer to produce his own great poem, Troilus and Criseyde (early-to-mid 1380s).