Petrarch and Petrarchism: The English and French Traditions
- Author / Editor
- Minta, Stephen.
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