Da Cambridge a Saint-Denis, Passando per Pian di Mugnone: Un Itinerario Comico

Author / Editor
Giaccherini, Enrico.

Title
Da Cambridge a Saint-Denis, Passando per Pian di Mugnone: Un Itinerario Comico

Published
Studi in Ricordo di Giacomo Bona. Annali della Facolt di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Universit della Basilicata. (Potenza: Universit della Basilicata, 1999), pp. 131-50.

Description
RvT and ShT are related to Boccaccio's Decameron 9.6 and 8.1, respectively, not so much thematically as in their uses of source material. In particular, in its balance of comedy and moral teaching, ShT is closer to the general features of the Decameron than are the other Tales in CT.

Alternative Title
Studi in Ricordo di Giacomo Bona.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Reeve and His Tale.