The Genoese Saint Valentine and Chaucer's Third of May

Author / Editor
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.

Title
The Genoese Saint Valentine and Chaucer's Third of May

Published
Chaucer Newsletter 1.2 (1979): 6-10.

Description
Argues that Chaucer's St. Valentine is a Genoese Saint Valentine whose feast was May 2, and not the Valentine of February 14. Thus the appropriateness of spring imagery.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.