Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harl. ms. 3943) compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato
By: tr. by Wm. Michael Rosetti.
Contributors: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919, ed. and tr.
Series: Chaucer society. [Publications] First series.; 44, 65
Publisher: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner & Co.
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; enm; ita
Number of pages: 301
Notes: Issued in 2 parts, 1875-83.
On verso of t.-p.: Second series, 9. [!] Perhaps the t.-p. is a preliminary one, later discarded.
The translation of Boccaccio and Chaucer's text are printed in parallel columns. "Those lines ... that Chaucer translated or adapted are englisht here: those which Chaucer did not use ... are only summarized.
"Something less than a third of the Troylus is taken direct from the Filostrato."--Pref. p. iii.