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Contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and the Italian humanists Petrarch or Boccaccio has been proposed by scholars for centuries.[1] More recent scholarship tends to discount these earlier speculations because of lack of evidence. As Leonard Koff remarks, the story of their meeting is "a 'tydying' worthy of Chaucer himself".[2][3][4][5][6]
- ^ Thomas Warton, The history of English poetry, from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of the eighteenth century (first published London: J. Dodsley, etc.; Oxford: Fletcher, 1774–81) and William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English poets: delivered at the Surrey Institution (first published London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818): both extracted in Brewer 1995, pp. 226–30 (p.227) and 272–83 (p. 277)
- Hendrickson 1907, pp. 183–192
- Rearden 1882, p. 458
- Skeat 1900, pp. 382, 453, 454, 455
- Gardner 1999, p. 198
- Howard 1987, p. 190
- Gray 2003, p. 56
- Coulton 1908, p. 42 ...Speght writing in 1598...
- THE GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAGE – Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) Archived 24 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Koff 11
- ^ anon, The World of Chaucer 2008
- Cousin 1910, p. 167
- Guiney 1908
- Boitani 1985
- Coulton 1908, p. 45
- ^ Skeat 1910
- ^ Skeat 1900, p. 454 (Scholars being Professor Walter William Skeat and Dr. Furnivall)
- ^ Coulton 1908, p. 40