Gli scogli neri e il niente che c'è' : Dorigen's Black Rocks and Chaucer's Translation of Italy

Author / Editor
Ginsberg, Warren.

Title
Gli scogli neri e il niente che c'è' : Dorigen's Black Rocks and Chaucer's Translation of Italy

Published
Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 387-408.

Description
Ginsberg considers Boccaccio's tale of Menedon (Filocolo 4) as a "translation" of FranT, as well as vice versa, exploring the "mode of meaning" particular to each version. Differences in ideology between trecento Italy and Chaucer's London encourage us to recognize how the plot and details would have been read differently in these different contexts.

Alternative Title
Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.