Il Filostrato

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Il Filostrato is a 14th-century narrative poem by Giovanni Boccaccio that recounts the tragic love story of Troilus and Criseyde and later inspired Geoffrey Chaucer’s version of the tale.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian poem
narrative poem
adaptationOf earlier French and Latin Trojan narratives
approximateDate c. 1335–1340
author Giovanni Boccaccio
basedOn Trojan War legend
centuryOfComposition 14th century
countryOfOrigin Italy
genre courtly love literature
romance
influencedAuthor Geoffrey Chaucer
inspiredWork Troilus and Criseyde
languageFamily Romance languages
literaryForm poem in ottava rima
literaryPeriod Late Middle Ages
literaryTradition medieval adaptations of classical myths
mainCharacter Criseida
Troilo
movement Italian Trecento literature
narrativeForm verse narrative
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage Italian
placeInAuthorCareer early work of Giovanni Boccaccio
relatedWorkByAuthor The Decameron
surface form: Decameron
setting Troy
subjectMatter love affair of Troilo and Criseida
theme betrayal
fate
tragic love
titleMeaning “the love-struck one”
verseForm ottava rima

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Giovanni Boccaccio notableWork Il Filostrato
Troilus and Criseyde basedOn Il Filostrato
Criseyde influencedByWork Il Filostrato
Cressida presentInWork Il Filostrato