Abstract
Chaucer borrowed the story of Palamon and Arcite from Boccaccio, a rather older contemporary. He may have come upon Boccaccio’s work, the Teseida, on one of his visits to Italy, and it is even possible that he met Boccaccio in 1372–3.
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© 1987 Anne Samson
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Samson, A. (1987). Chaucer and Boccaccio. In: The Knight’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08915-4_6
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