What is Filostrato (poem)?
[[File:Boccaccio Altonensis 1.jpg|thumb|A hand-written page of Giovanni Boccaccio's Filostrato]] '''Filostrato''' is a poem by 14th-century Italian poet [[Giovanni Boccaccio]].<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio#ref233427 Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet and scholar at Encyclopaedia Britannica.]</ref> It tells about Troilo's love for Criseyda. The historical importance comes from two reasons. One reason is that it is one of the first long poems written in [[ottava rima]]. The second is that it was a source for [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''Troilus and Criseyde''. Ottava rima is a strophe built of eight lines and rhymed abababcc. :Alcun di Giove sogliono il favore :ne’ lor principii pietosi invocare, :altri d’Apollo chiamano il valore; :io di Parnaso le Muse pregare :solea ne’ miei bisogni, ma Amore :novellamente m’ha fatto mutare :il mio costume antico e usitato, :po’ fui di te, madonna, innamorato. Boccaccio's poem was based on ''Roman de Troie'' by Benôit de Sainte Maure, ''Historia troiana'' by Guido delle Colonne, a similar story by Binduccio dello Scelto and ''Historia Troiae'' by Filippo Ceppi.<ref>[http://digilander.libero.it/decamerone.plinio/OPEREMINORI/filostrato.htm Opere minori di Giovanni Boccaccio, Filostrato (1335-38).]</ref> == References == <references /> == Bibliography == * [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XZy9Jlk-JDMC Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Filostrato, Parigi 1798.] == Other websites == * [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Filostrato/Parte_prima Filostrato di Giovanni Boccaccio at Italian Wikisource.] * {{cite book| last = Ginsberg| first = Warren| title = Chaucer's Italian Tradition| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2QJ6YexY4ckC&pg=PA150| year = 2002| publisher = University of Michigan Press| isbn = 0-472-11234-1| page = 150 }} [[Category:Epic poems]] [[Category:14th-century works]] [[Category:Italian literature]]