The Moon in Leo: What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato's' Calendar
- Author / Editor
- Tavormina, M. Teresa.
The Moon in Leo: What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato's' Calendar
- Published
- Ball State University Forum 22 (1981): 14-19.
- Description
- The lunar calendar and imagery of TC 4, though inspired by a similar device in "Filostrato," are far more elaborate than those in the source. The title characters are often directly correlated to these images, which deepens their development.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.