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Harvard's Chaucer Page: Compare Chaucer & Petrarch

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Chaucer, in his "Canticus Troili" from Book One of "Troilus and Criseyda," draws from Petrarch's "If Love Does Not Exist." The former is written in Middle English, the latter in Italian, both without glossaries or further translation, so rather difficult.

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medieval, renaissance, "canticus troili", "if love does not exist", "troilus and criseyda", chaucer, middle ages, petrarch, other writings and analyses of geoffrey chaucer
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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