Filostrato (poem)

Filostrato is a poem by 14th-century Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio.Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet and scholar at Encyclopaedia Britannica. It tells about Troilo's love for Criseyda. The historical importance comes from two reasons. One reason is that it is one of the first long poems written in ottava rima. The second is that it was a source for Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Ottava rima is a strophe built of eight lines and rhymed abababcc.

Alcun di Giove sogliono il favore
ne’ lor principii pietosi invocare,
altri d’Apollo chiamano il valore;
io di Parnaso le Muse pregare
solea ne’ miei bisogni, ma Amore
novellamente m’ha fatto mutare
il mio costume antico e usitato,
po’ fui di te, madonna, innamorato.

Boccaccio's poem was based on Roman de Troie by Benôit de Sainte Maure, Historia troiana by Guido delle Colonne, a similar story by Binduccio dello Scelto and Historia Troiae by Filippo Ceppi.Opere minori di Giovanni Boccaccio, Filostrato (1335-38).

 References 

 Bibliography 
  Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Filostrato, Parigi 1798.

 Other websites 
  Filostrato di Giovanni Boccaccio at Italian Wikisource.


Category:Epic poems
Category:14th-century works
Category:Italian literature