Chaucer Translates From Italian
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero.
Chaucer Translates From Italian
- Published
- Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Lost in Translation? (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009), pp. 93-107.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's adaptations of Italian literature are better regarded as intertextual rewritings than as translations, particularly in instances where he fuses materials from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Comments on portions of TC, HF, Anel, PF, KnT, ClT, MkT, PrT, SNT.
- Alternative Title
- Lost in Translation?
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Troilus and Criseyde
- House of Fame
- Anelida and Arcite
- Parliament of Fowls
- Knight and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale
- Monk and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Second Nun and Her Tale