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Il Filostrato
Poem by Giovanni Boccaccio
"Il Filostrato" is a poem by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, and the inspiration for Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde[1] and, through Chaucer, the Shakespeare play Troilus and Cressida.
It is itself loosely based on Le Roman de Troie, by 12th-century poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure.
Trama filostrato boccaccio biography
Il Filostrato is a narrative poem on a classical topic written in "royal octaves" (ottava rima[1]) and divided into eight cantos. The title, a combination of Greek and Latin words, can be translated approximately as "laid prostrate by love".
The poem has a mythological plot: it narrates the love of Troilo (Troilus), a younger son of Priam of Troy, for Criseida (Cressida or Criseyde), daughter of Calcas (Calchas).
Although its setting is Trojan, Boccaccio's story is not taken from Greek myth, but from the Roman de Troie, a twelfth-century French medieval re-elaboration of the Trojan legend by Benoît de Sainte-Ma