Griselde Before Chaucer : Love Between Men, Women, and Farewell Art

Author / Editor
Wallace, David.

Title
Griselde Before Chaucer : Love Between Men, Women, and Farewell Art

Published
Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager, eds. Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 207-22.

Description
Wallace reviews letters between Boccaccio and Petrarch, suggesting that it is not unreasonable to "consider Petrarch and Boccaccio toiling, sparring, and loving one another in bonds suggestive of matrimony" (210). Aligns events of the Griselda tales with events discussed in Petrarch's "Seniles" XVII and XVIII; "Chaucer found his truest imaginative kinship with poets outside of England" (215).

Alternative Title
Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Clerk and His Tale