Petrarch's 'Griselda': An English Translation
- Author / Editor
- Kadish, Emile P., trans.
Petrarch's 'Griselda': An English Translation
- Published
- Mediaevalia 3 (1977): 1-24.
- Description
- Translation, with critical introduction.
- Rather than offering a faithful translation intended only to promote Boccaccio's story, Petrarch's version transforms it,changing tone, proportions and comparative character development, relinquishing psychological realism for Christian allegory, and appealing to an elite audience able to understand the delicately cultivated pathos as well as the Latin.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.