Main source:

Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale 6.53 (Ghosh, Wimsatt, Aiken, Schanzer, Frank) (translation, by MFV)

 Other sources:

Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus 86 (ed. Zaccaria: p. 344, 346, 354) (Shannon)

Boccaccio, De casibus illustrium virorum, 6.15.34 (Shannon; Robinson)

Cf: Boccaccio, La Fiammetta, 8; and Amorosa visione 10 (Frank);

Petrarch, Trionfo d'Amore 1.89-91 and Trionfo della Fama 1.106 (Lowes)

Analogues, or minor sources

Florus, Epitome rerum Romanorum 2.21(Skeat; Bech)

Plutarch, Parallel Lives 9.82-83 [?= Life of Antony] (Skeat)

Orosius, Historiae adversum Paganos 6.16.2 (Ghosh)

 

English Contemporaries (versions derived from Chaucer):

Gower, Confessio Amantis 7.

Lydgate, 'The Floure of Curtesye' 194-95; 'A Ballade Of Her That Hath All Vertues' 19;

Fall of Princes (i.e., trans of Boccaccio, De casibus), around 3618ff. (Frank)

 

Chaucer	Vincent of Beauvais	Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus	Boccaccio, De casibus	Others
580-705	6.53	86	6.15	Cf. Gower CA 8. 2571-77); Lydgate (Frank) (all prob. derived from Chaucer)
580-83			6.15 (Shannon)
588			6.15 (Shannon)
590		86 (Shannon)
594		86 (Shannon)	6.15 (Shannon)
595		86 (Shannon)
601-2			6.15 (Shannon)
615			6.15 (Shannon)
621				Whiting S249
627				Whiting L308
629-53				Froissart 1.50, 303-5 (Ker; Schofield); Richard Coeur de Lion, 2537-684 (Schofield)
650-62		86 (Shannon)	6.15 (Shannon)
651				Whiting T87: cf. Troilus 3.615; KnT I..2636
654	Ghosh	Shannon	Shannon	Florus (Bech)
655				Cf. RR 15621-22
657-61	Aiken
663-64	Aiken; Fyler	p. 354 (Fyler)
673-75			6.15 (Shannon)
678-80, 695-702				Bevis of Hamtoun, et al. (Tatlock, Brown, Griffith); cf. Gower, CA 8.2573-75