'O Nyce World': What Chaucer really found in Guido delle Colonne's History of Troy
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
'O Nyce World': What Chaucer really found in Guido delle Colonne's History of Troy
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 308-15.
- Description
- Guido's "Historia Destructionis Troiae" uses an objective historical tone, mixed with outbursts of personal lamentation. From this Chaucer developed his narrator, a philosophical historian who is affected as a man by his own story, to accent in TC the beauty of love and the nature of huamn ignorance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.