Magia e Miracolo in Due Favole Medievali

Author / Editor
Gabrieli, Vittorio.

Title
Magia e Miracolo in Due Favole Medievali

Published
La Cultura 17 (1980): 90-104.

Description
Petrarch's account of a gemstone ring that, under the tongue of a beautiful corpse, drove Charlemagne mad with passion ("Familiares" 1.1.4) may have been known to Chaucer. The legend provides a suggestive analogue for the motif of the "grain" in the PrT.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.