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Teseida
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thumb|Emilia in the rose garden, French, c. 1460 Teseida (full title: Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, or The Theseid, Concerning the Nuptials of Emily) is a long epic poem written by Giovanni Boccaccio c.1340–41. Running to almost 10,000 lines divided into twelve books, its notional subject is the career and rule of the ancient Greek hero Theseus (Teseo), although the majority of the epic tells the story of the rivalry of Palemone and Arcita for the love of Emilia. It is the main source of "The Knight's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and therefore is the original source of The Two
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It sits within the topics 1340 works, 1341 works and 14th-century poems.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Author
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- First published
- 1938
- Editions
- 3
- Subjects
- Theseus (Greek mythology), Poetry
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Genre
- epic poem
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Image
- Paolo da Visso 1.jpg
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- copyright status
- public domain
- derivative work
- The Knight's Tale
- Commons category
- Teseida delle nozze di Emilia
- publication date
- 1339-00-00
- form of creative work
- poem
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thumb|Emilia in the rose garden, French, c. 1460 Teseida (full title: Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, or The Theseid, Concerning the Nuptials of Emily) is a long epic poem written by Giovanni Boccaccio c.1340–41. Running to almost 10,000 lines divided into twelve books, its notional subject is the career and rule of the ancient Greek hero Theseus (Teseo), although the majority of the epic tells the story of the rivalry of Palemone and Arcita for the love of Emilia. It is the main source of "The Knight's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and therefore is the original source of The Two Noble Kinsmen, a collaboration by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. The exact sources of Boccaccio's knowledge about the ancient Greek world are unknown, but is likely that he gained the knowledge through his close friendship with Paolo de Perugia, a medieval collector of ancient myths and tales. thumb|Teseida
French poets Jeanne de la Font and Anne de Graville gained fame in the sixteenth century by writing French verse adaptions of Teseida.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Teseida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.