Chaucer and Petrarch

Description: Assesses Chaucer's relationship with Petrarch, focusing on translation theory, humanism, and Chaucer's uses of the Italian writer as source for ClT and the "Canticus Troili" of TC. Also assesses Chaucer's references to Petrarch in ClT and in MkT, as well as his interactions with Italians and Italian culture (including the works of Dante and Boccaccio) in London and on his Italian journeys. Comments on Chaucer's notions of translation and literary production, derived from various classical and medieval sources, particularly in comparison with Petrarch's.

Chaucer Subjects: Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations; Chaucer's Life; Clerk and His Tale; Monk and His Tale; Troilus and Criseyde