A Golden Ring: English Poets in Florence from 1373 to the Present Day

Author / Editor
Hobday, Charles.

Title
A Golden Ring: English Poets in Florence from 1373 to the Present Day

Published
London: Peter Owen, 1997.

Physical Description
360 pp.

Description
Chapter 1 (pp. 15-31) describes Chaucer's 1373 visit to Florence, a great industrial and financial center declining into political factionalism. Italian meters influenced Chaucer's rhyme royal. Boccaccio taught him the potential of romance; Dante provided a model of mixed high and low style.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.