Chaucer's Adaptation of Boccaccio's Temple of Venus in the Parliament of Fowls
- Author / Editor
- Morgan, Gerald.
Chaucer's Adaptation of Boccaccio's Temple of Venus in the Parliament of Fowls
- Published
- Review of English Studies 56 (2005): 1-36.
- Description
- Following Aristotle, medieval poets consider poetry a branch of moral philosophy. Whether or not Chaucer knew Boccaccio's own glosses on the "Teseida," he adapts the Italian work to his own treatment of allegorical figures and so justifies Usk's description of Chaucer as a noble, philosophical poet.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations