. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . r, and Chaucermay well have felt boimd to make amends by writing thiswiirlv in return for her advocacy in the matter of the deputyat the Customs-house. It is at any rate curious that onlynine of the whole series planned are in existence, and thatthe queen .survived just that number of years after the<ommencement of the poem. The general jiian of thework is based upon Boccaccios De mulieribus claris,-and
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . r, and Chaucermay well have felt boimd to make amends by writing thiswiirlv in return for her advocacy in the matter of the deputyat the Customs-house. It is at any rate curious that onlynine of the whole series planned are in existence, and thatthe queen .survived just that number of years after the<ommencement of the poem. The general jiian of thework is based upon Boccaccios De mulieribus claris,-and to the same poet is due the general form of the (Janterbury Tales, on which Chaucer was at work, andto which he was giving his main thought and energy at thistime. The Decamerone offered an example of a series ofseparate tales told liy a company of men and women all cometogether with the same object: l)Ut here th< likeness object of the pilgrims was a worthy, not a selfish one,and the scene is ever shifting, not a cpiiet villa garden. Thecharacters, too, are drawn fi-om all sorts and conditions of Like tho •? Decameron of lioccaccio.^ •001106™!!!; Famous
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