A collection of essays debating what fourteenth-century Italy and its literature meant to Chaucer.

Introduction; 1. Chaucer's Italy John Larner; 2. English culture in the fourteenth-century Janet Coleman; 3. Anglo-Italian contacts in the fourteenth century Wendy Childs; 4. Chaucer, Dante and Boccaccio J. A. W. Bennett; 5. What Dante meant to Chaucer Piero Boitani; 6. Chaucer and Boccaccio's early writings David Wallace; 7. Chaucer and the Filostrato Barry Windeatt; 8. Style, iconography and narrative: the lesson of the Teseida Piero Boitani; 9. The wake of the Commedia: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's Decameron Robin Kirkpatrick; 10. The Griselda story in Boccaccio, Petrarch and Chaucer Robin Kirkpatrick; 11. Chaucer, Boccaccio and the friars Nicholas Havely; 12. Chaucer and Boccaccio's Latin works Peter Godman; 13. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento: a bibliography Enrico Giaccherini; Index.