The 'Monk's Tale': Dante and Boccaccio

Author / Editor
Boitani, Piero.

Title
The 'Monk's Tale': Dante and Boccaccio

Published
Medium Aevum 45 (1976): 50-69.

Description
While using the Italians' narrative structures in MkT, Chaucer twists the styles and themes of Dante and Boccaccio. The pathos and direct narrative of Chaucer's Hugelyn supplant the horror and ambiguities of Dante's Ugolino. Chaucer's Cenobia episode popularizes the refined complexity of Boccaccio's Zenobia.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.