prays that we be worthy of Christ's mercy. Inspiration The Canticus Troili is a translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 from Il Canzoniere. Troilus' philosophical monologue in Book IV is from Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, a book that was extremely influential to Chaucer. References Further reading Boitani, Piero and Jill Mann. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Brown, Peter, ed. A Companion to Chaucer. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Chaucer, G. Troilus and Criseyde. Project Gutenberg. Dinshaw, Carolyn. Chaucer's Sexual Poetics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Garrison, John, “One Mind, One Heart, One Purse: Integrating Friendship Traditions and the Case of Troilus and Criseyde,” in Medievalia et Humanistica 36 (2010), p. 25–48. Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Mann, Jill. Feminizing Chaucer. 2nd ed. Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2002. McAlpine, Monica. The Genre of Troilus and Criseyde. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. Patterson, Lee. Chaucer and the Subject of History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Robinson, Ian. Chaucer and the English Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Robinson, Ian. Chaucer's Prosody: A Study of the Middle English Verse Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Strohm, Paul. Social Chaucer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. Utz, Richard. Literarischer Nominalismus im Spätmittelalter. Eine Untersuchung zu Sprache, Charakterzeichnung und Struktur in Geoffrey Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde. Frankfurt: Lang, 1990. Wallace, David. Chaucerian polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. External links "Troilus and Criseyde", middle-english hypertext with glossary Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde via The Medieval and Classical Literature Library. . . . (in Middle English) 1380s works 14th-century poems Adaptations of works by Giovanni Boccaccio Epic poems in English Middle English poems Poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Cressida Romance (genre) Trojan War literature Works based on classical literature Love stories