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Geoffrey Chaucer based some of his works on poems written by Giovanni Boccaccio.
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Is it true that Geoffrey Chaucer based some of his works on poems written by Giovanni Boccaccio?
Yes. Geoffrey Chaucer based several of his major poetic works, including Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale, on narrative poems written by Giovanni Boccaccio.
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States that Boccaccio's work was a major source of inspiration and plots for Geoffrey Chaucer.
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LibreTexts: LibreTexts: 16.6%3A Reading%3A Literature in the Renaissance. (n.d.). LibreTexts. https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Lumen_Learning/Book%3A_Western_Civilization_I_(Lumen)/16%3A_Week_14%3A_Italian_City-states_and_Renaissance/16.6%3A_Reading%3A_Literature_in_the_Renaissance
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Notes that Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women is a reworking of Boccaccio's Famous Women.
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Semantic Scholar peS2o: Women's Historiography in Late Medieval European Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan. (n.d.). Semantic Scholar peS2o. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=oa_diss
Confirms Boccaccio's poem Il Filostrato was the inspiration for Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
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Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Il Filostrato. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Filostrato
Explicitly states that some of Geoffrey Chaucer's works were based on Boccaccio's poems.
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Simple English Wikipedia: Simple English Wikipedia: Giovanni Boccaccio. (n.d.). Simple English Wikipedia. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Boccaccio
Indicates Chaucer used Boccaccio's poem Teseide for his Knight's Tale and Il Filostrato for Troilus.
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Wikisource: Wikisource: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Giovanni Boccaccio. (n.d.). Wikisource. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Giovanni_Boccaccio
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