The Comedy of the Monk's Tale : Chaucer's Hugelyn and Early Commentary on Dante's Ugolino
- Author / Editor
- Pinti, Daniel J.
The Comedy of the Monk's Tale : Chaucer's Hugelyn and Early Commentary on Dante's Ugolino
- Published
- Comparative Literature Studies 37: 277-97, 2000.
- Description
- Medieval commentaries on the "Commedia" (Divine Comedy) inform our understanding of how Chaucer read Dante. In the Hugolino episode of MkT, with its reference to Dante, Chaucer simultaneously authorizes "Inferno" 33 and destabilizes it, exemplifying how glossing operates in literary tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.