Chaucer Joins the "Schiera": "The House of Fame," Italy, and the Determination of Posterity.
- Author / Editor
- Rossiter, William T.
Chaucer Joins the "Schiera": "The House of Fame," Italy, and the Determination of Posterity.
- Published
- Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 21–42.
- Description
- Explores how Chaucer used Petrarch, Petrarch used Dante, and Dante used Virgil: a sequence of influence that underpins Chaucer's "conception of renown" and encouraged him to lay claim to belonging to the schiera (band) of famous poets. Discusses references and allusions to famous poets in HF, the end of TC, and ClP; comments on Lydgate's, Hoccleve's, and Deschamps's praise of Chaucer; and reassesses the relative dates of composition for HF, TC, ClPT,
and Deschamps's balade.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Clerk and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion