'Troilus and Criseyde,' V.743-749: Another Possible Source
- Author / Editor
- Matthews, Lloyd J.
'Troilus and Criseyde,' V.743-749: Another Possible Source
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 82 (1981): 211-13.
- Description
- The lines of Matteo Frescobaldi's "Canzone XI" provide the nearest analogue for Chaucer's description of Prudence with "eyen thre." As bankers to the crown, the Frescobaldi had direct links with fourteenth-century England, and the verbal parallels make this a much more likely source for TC 5.743-49 than Dante.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.