'In Gentil Hertes Ay Redy to Repaire': Dante's Francesca and Chaucer's Troilus

Author / Editor
Boitani, Piero.

Title
'In Gentil Hertes Ay Redy to Repaire': Dante's Francesca and Chaucer's Troilus

Published
Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, eds. Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 135-52.

Description
Examines intertextual relations among the opening of TC 3, its sources in Boethius and Boccaccio, Dante's "Inferno," and Guido Guinizelli's canzone, "Al cor gentile rempaira sempre amore." Chaucer's modifications of his predecessors and Troilus's apotheosis reflect the poet's conviction that human sensual love is analogous to the "love by which the cosmos is ruled."

Alternative Title
Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society.

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