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Il Filostrato is a poem by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, and the inspiration for Geoffrey Chaucer\'s Troilus and Criseyde and, through Chaucer, the Shakespeare play Troilus and Cressida. It is itself loosely based on Le Roman de Troie, by 12th-century poet Benoît de Sainte-Maure.\r\n\r\nIl Filostrato is a narrative poem on a classical topic written in \"royal octaves\" (ottava rima) and divided into eight cantos. The title, a combination of Greek and Latin words, can be translated approximately as \"laid prostrate by love\". The poem has a mythological plot: it narrates the love of Troilo (Troilus), a younger son of Priam of Troy, for Criseida (Cressida), daughter of Calcas (Calchas).