![]() O'Donnell of the University of Pennsylvania. ![]() Chaucer was aware of some of these works in the Nun's Priest's Tale, Boethius' treatise on music, De musica, is cited (VII.3294).įor good introductory materials and a complete translation, see the edition in the admirable University of Virginia e-text series. ![]() 395-97).īoethius was author of a number of other popular and authoritative works, including translations and commentaries on a variety of topics. It deeply influenced Chaucer's work, especially in the Knight's Tale and Troilus and Criseyda see the introduction to Boece in the Riverside Chaucer (pp. ![]() Chaucer translated it into English, as did King Alfred before him, and Queen Elizabeth I a couple of centuries after him. The Consolation of Philosophy, by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, written in prison while he awaited execution by Theodoric, ruler of Rome, was the most popular and influential philosophical work, especially among laymen, from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries. ![]()
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