- "Il
Filostrato" is a poem by the
Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, and the
inspiration for
Geoffrey Chaucer's
Troilus and
Criseyde and,
through Chaucer...
- War. In Boccaccio's Il
Filostrato (1333–1339),
Ripheus is
named as one of the
Trojans taken prisoner by the Gr****s. Il
Filostrato served as the
basis for...
-
inquisitor as
Pietro dell'Aquila, the
inquisitor of
Florence in 1345.
Filostrato tells this tale. Bergamino, an
entertainer widely known for his wit and...
- his true
vocation of poetry.
Works produced in this
period include Il
Filostrato and
Teseida (the
sources for Chaucer's
Troilus and
Criseyde and The Knight's...
- the
Renaissance and
Baroque periods.
Boccaccio for example, in his Il
Filostrato,
mixes the
tradition of Cupid's
arrow with the Provençal
emphasis on the...
- the N.I.C.E., but
after a
conversation with an
Italian scientist named Filostrato he is
introduced to the Head of the Institute. This
turns out to be a...
- life and
causing a
panic among the
other Trojans.
Pandarus appears in Il
Filostrato by
Giovanni Boccaccio, in
which he
plays the role of a go-between in the...
- [citation needed]
Giovanni Boccaccio provides a
memorable example in his Il
Filostrato,
where he
mixes the
tradition of love at
first sight, the eye's darts...
- Il
Filostrato. The
title means "the one
struck down by love".
There is an
overt purpose to the text. In the proem,
Boccaccio himself is
Filostrato and...
-
source appears to have been Boccaccio, who re-wrote the tale in his Il
Filostrato.
Chaucer attributes the
story to a "Lollius" (whom he also
mentions in...
