The First Italian Essay on Chaucer

Author / Editor
Cioffi, Caron.

Title
The First Italian Essay on Chaucer

Published
Chaucer Review 22 (1987): 53-61.

Description
In his "Teatro d'huomini letterati" (1647), Gerolamo Ghilini includes a sketch of Chaucer's life and works based on John Pits's "Relationem historicarum de rebus anglicis" (Paris, 1619). Errors and omissions demonstrate that Ghilini depended wholly upon Pits and had no knowledge of (Middle) English.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life.