ISBN: | 978-5-5091-2427-3 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and the Italian humanists Petrarch or Boccaccio has been proposed by scholars for centuries. More recent scholarship tends to discount these earlier speculations because of lack of evidence. As Leonard Koff remarks, the story of their meeting is "a `tydying` worthy of Chaucer himself."