Chaucer's Personification of Prudence in 'Troilus' (V, 743-749): Sources in Visual Arts and Manuscript Scholia
- Author / Editor
- Matthews, Lloyd J.
Chaucer's Personification of Prudence in 'Troilus' (V, 743-749): Sources in Visual Arts and Manuscript Scholia
- Published
- English Language Notes 13 (1975): 249-55.
- Description
- Criseyde's allusion to Prudence with "eyen thre" is derived from Dante's "Purgatorio," 29.132; but since the Italian reference is cryptic in style and symbology, Chaucer was probably also influenced by glosses and illuminations for the passage, similar to some found in surviving manuscripts of the "Commedia" today.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.