Word: filostrato
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...will still rather read Chaucer than any "translation" of him, a great many present-day readers will prefer Krapp. By & large the "translation" faithfully preserves the tone of the original -slyly ingenuous, disarmingly matter-of-fact. The story of Troilus & Cressida, which Chaucer cribbed from Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, will never be old-fashioned or out-of-date. Troilus. a younger son of King Priam of Troy, falls head over heels in love with Cressida, a comely young woman whose father, soothsaying Calchas. has deserted to the Greeks. Troilus thinks his case is hopeless, prepares to take it lying...
...first book which the Chaucer Society will publish this year will be Mr. W. M. Rossetti's comparison of Chaucer's "Troilus," with its part original, the "Filostrato" of Boccaccio...
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