Chaucer and the Italians

Author / Editor
Boitani, Piero.

Title
Chaucer and the Italians

Published
Giuseppe Galigani, ed. Italomania(s): Italy and the English Speaking World from Chaucer to Seamus Heaney. Proceedings of the Georgetown and Kent State University Conference Held in Florence in [sic] June 20-21, 2005 (Florence: Mauro Pagliai, 2007), pp. 15-25.

Description
Boitani surveys Chaucer's "ongoing dialogue" with Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, discussing how Chaucer's borrowings reflect his "prodigious memory and striking associative and intertextual skill." Draws examples from PF, TC, KnT and ClT and comments on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century legacies of Italian influence on English literature.

Contributor
Galigani, Giuseppe, ed.

Alternative Title
Italomania(s): Italy and the English Speaking World from Chaucer to Seamus Heaney.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde.
Knight and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.