The 'Fides Interpres,' or From Horace to Pandarus

Author / Editor
Fleming, John V.

Title
The 'Fides Interpres,' or From Horace to Pandarus

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Interpretation: Medieval and Modern (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 189-200.

Description
The narrator's fidelity and infidelity to sources are a major theme of TC, reflecting a tradition of translation theory and practice that extends back to Horace and is heavily influenced by Boethius.

Alternative Title
Interpretation: Medieval and Modern.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.