Translation as Hermeneutical Performance in Chaucer's Rendering of Petrarch's Sonnet 132

Author / Editor
Maggioni, Maria Luisa.

Title
Translation as Hermeneutical Performance in Chaucer's Rendering of Petrarch's Sonnet 132

Published
Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria 11 (2003): 13-28.

Description
Close comparison of Chaucer's translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 in TC 1.400-420 as a process of paraphrase and commentary on the original, with particular attention to Chaucer's treatment of the Italian phrase "S'a mal mio grado" and nuances he may have derived from his general familiarity with Petrarch's "Canzoniere."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations