From 'Goodly Maker' to Witness Against the Pope: Conscripting Dante in Henrician England

Author / Editor
Havely, Nick.

Title
From 'Goodly Maker' to Witness Against the Pope: Conscripting Dante in Henrician England

Published
Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 5.1 (2010): 76-98.

Description
Havely documents Dante's reception in sixteenth-century England, focusing on the perception of Dante in relation to England as "empire" and treatments of Dante as a "proto-Protestant" writer. Observes recurrently how Dante and Chaucer were yoked in Henrician literary tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.