The 'Friar's Tale': Chaucer, Dante, and the 'Translatio Studii'
- Author / Editor
- Herzman, Ronald B.
The 'Friar's Tale': Chaucer, Dante, and the 'Translatio Studii'
- Published
- Anthony Pellegrini, ed. The Early Renaissance: Virgil and the Classical Tradition (Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York, 1985), pp. 1-17.
- Description
- In FrT, Chaucer humorously uses references to Dante's story of Frate Alberigo. In reference to "Inferno," canto 33, to reverse Dante's pattern of punishment and sin, Chaucer specifically names Dante; and Chaucer's description of Satan is fashioned on Dante's version in "Inferno," canto 34.
- Contributor
- Pellegrini, Anthony,ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Early Renaissance: Virgil and the Classical Tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.