Word: filostrato
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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 The story of Troilus & Cressida, which Chaucer cribbed from Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, will never be old-fashioned or out-of-date.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...
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