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Harvard's Chaucer Page: Compare Chaucer & Petrarch

For Students 9th - 10th
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...