What Dante Meant to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero.
What Dante Meant to Chaucer
- Published
- Piero Boitani, ed. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 115-39.
- Description
- Dante and Chaucer shared a common knowledge in the classics, medieval philosophy, and science. For HF, Chaucer drew on the "Purgatorio" and the "Paradiso" more than on the "Inferno." TC is Chaucer's equivalent of the "Divine Comedy" and the "Teseida."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Italian Trecento.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- House of Fame.
- Troilus and Criseyde.