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PHILOSTRATE is the name Arcita takes when he returns to Athens in disguise in The Knight's Tale. In Boccaccio's Il Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia (1339-1341), Arcita takes the name Penteo, Tes IV.12. Chaucer has borrowed the pseudonym for Arcita from the title of another Boccaccio poem, Il Filostrato (1333-1339), which means "conquered by love." [Arcita]

The name occurs three times, twice medially, KnT 1428, 1558, and once in final rhyming position, KnT 1728.

Boccaccio, Tutte le opere, ed. V. Branca, II: 25-228, 356.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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