Petrarch and Petrarchism: The English and French Traditions

Author / Editor
Minta, Stephen.

Title
Petrarch and Petrarchism: The English and French Traditions

Published
Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1980.

Physical Description
ix, 183 pp.

Series
Literature in Context.

Description
An introduction to Petrarch, his works, and their reception in England and France to the seventeenth century. Observes connections between the end of Petrarch's "Canzoniere" and Chaucer's Ret, and comments on Chaucer's reference to Petrarch in ClP and his translation of the Italian's sonnet in the "Canticus Troili" of TC. Also comments on Thomas Watson's reference to Chaucer's translation in a note to his own translation of the sonnet (published 1582).

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and later Allusion
Chaucer's Retraction
Clerk and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde