'Whan She Translated Was': A Chaucerian Critique of the Petrarchan Academy
- Author / Editor
- Wallace, David.
'Whan She Translated Was': A Chaucerian Critique of the Petrarchan Academy
- Published
- Lee Patterson, ed. Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530 (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 156-215.
- Description
- Argues that "to achieve some sense of what Petrarch meant to Chaucer we must...recover the historical specificity both of the Petrarchan texts and of Chaucer's reading of them." Petrarch's concern for the preservation of his texts induced him to accept the patronage of north Italian despots and led to the formation of the Petrarchan Academy. Petrarch's value to Chaucer is discovered by considering what Chaucer's ClT makes of Petrarch's story of Griselde.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.