Writing the Tyrant's Death: Chaucer, Bernabo Visconti and Richard II

Author / Editor
Wallace, David.

Title
Writing the Tyrant's Death: Chaucer, Bernabo Visconti and Richard II

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 117-30.

Description
The Italian city-state of Lombardy and the life and death of Bernabo, its most famous tyrant, provides inspiration for the fictional realm of "Lumbardye," which functions in Chaucer's works as a spatial metaphor for tyranny.

Alternative Title
Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Merchant and His Tale.