Abstract
For most of this century scholars have assumed that Boccaccio's Filocolo is the source for the Franklin's Tale. In 1903 Pio Rajna demonstrated persuasively that Chaucer found the main narrative for his poem in Menedon's story, which appears in the sequence of Love Questions in book 4 of the Filocolo.' Rajna's identification effectively ended the search for a lost Breton lay and other sources begun by nineteenth-century scholars.2 But if Rajna foreclosed one area of inquiry, he opened another, which attracted his contemporaries and has informed subsequent scholarship. Karl Young and John Livingston Lowes saw traces of the Filocolo's influence in other aspects of Chaucer's work, notably in Troilus and Criseyde.3 Sanford Meech's
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