Courtiers and Poets : An International Network of Literary Exchange in Late Fourteenth-Century Italy, France, and England

Author / Editor
Hanly, Michael.

Title
Courtiers and Poets : An International Network of Literary Exchange in Late Fourteenth-Century Italy, France, and England

Published
Viator 28: 306-32, 1997.

Description
Examines how the careers of several courtiers-diplomats-poets can help us reconstruct the "nature of literary transmission" from Italy to France to England. Discusses Philippe de Mézières, Honorat Bovet, Jean Muret and Giovanni Moccia, and Richart Eudes. The first two had contact with Chaucer, and all reflect how he may have had access to Italian humanist learning.

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