Chaucer Translates From Italian

Author / Editor
Boitani, Piero.

Title
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