The 'Buried Bodies' of Dante, Boccaccio, and, Petrarch: Chaucerian 'Sources' for the Critical Fiction of Obedient Wives
- Author / Editor
- Frese, Dolores Warwick.
The 'Buried Bodies' of Dante, Boccaccio, and, Petrarch: Chaucerian 'Sources' for the Critical Fiction of Obedient Wives
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 249-56.
- Description
- Frese reads water, dressing, and "suckling" imagery in Boccaccio, Petrarch, and ClT as vestiges of Dante's concern in "De vulgari eloquentia" with using "vernacular" language for "literature of lasting value."
- Alternative Title
- Colloquium: The Afterlife of Origins
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.