Chap-books and folk-lore tracts ... First series. Vol. 4 (of 5)

Chap-books and folk-lore tracts ... First series. Vol. 4 (of 5)

The History of Patient Grisel, 1619The narrative of the Patient Griselda is one of the most wide-spread...
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Author: Gomme, George Laurence,1853-1916
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Chap-books and folk-lore tracts ... First series. Vol. 4 (of 5)

Chap-books and folk-lore tracts ... First series. Vol. 4 (of 5)

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Chap-books and folk-lore tracts ... First series. Vol. 4 (of 5)

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Gomme, George Laurence,1853-1916
Format: eBook
Language: English

The History of Patient Grisel, 1619

The narrative of the Patient Griselda is one of the most wide-spread of the stories which have come down to us from the Middle Ages. It has been annexed to the highest literature by such poets as Boccaccio, Petrarch and Chaucer, and has been brought within reach of the meanest capacities by the ballad-mongers and the writers of penny histories. We cannot trace the story back farther than the middle of the fourteenth century, when Boccaccio incorporated it into his Decameron (day 10, novel 10); but it must have had a previous existence in Italy, for Petrarch says in his letter to Boccaccio that when he read it in the Decameron he remembered how pleased he had been with it when he heard it many years before. When his memory was thus revived in the story that charmed him so much he set to work to learn it by heart, so that he might repeat it to his friends. He then translated it into Latin for the benefit of those who did not know Italian.[1] iiThat he did repeat the story to his friend we learn from the Clerk of Oxenfords Prologue to his tale in the Canterbury Tales, where he says: 1. See Originals and Analogues of Chaucers Canterbury Tales, part ii. pp. 150176 (Chaucer Society). ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 60373
Author: Gomme, George Laurence
Release Date: Sep 28, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Gomme, George Laurence, 1853-1916 , Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917

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