The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction

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Perhaps it would be truer to say that the story in the "Disciplina" differs chiefly from "Athis et Prophilias " in being so crudely told as simply not to offer Boccaccio the narrative material and articulation that he wants. Boccaccio, then, tak- ing from the " Disciplina " several details towards the end of his story, takes nearly everything else from " Athis et Prophilias " ; takes, indeed, those very details of articulation and pathos, the visit to the betrothed, the soliloquy, the conflict ...between love and friendship, the inquiry, the dissimulation, etc. , which later, Lyly gets from " Tito and Gisippo. " In all probability these details conventions they almost seem to be come from a lost Byzan- tine novel. Grimm ("Kleinere Schriften, " Vol. Ill), concluding his discussion of the Second Part of "Athis et Prophilias" (a regular romance of chivalry, not here tabulated), remarks (pp. 269-270): "Der erste Theil dagegen [the Part we are here concerned with] zeigt die vornehmen und uberfeinerten Sitten des griechischen Kaiser- thums, ausseres Geprage und zur Schau getra- * Landau's and Lee's treatments of the sources of De- cameron, X.

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