Guido Cavalcanti's Theory of Love and Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- D'Agata D'Ottavi, Stefania.
Guido Cavalcanti's Theory of Love and Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Textus: English Studies in Italy 24 (2012): 427-48.
- Description
- Suggests how Chaucer may have become familiar with the work of Guido Cavalcanti, and argues that TC records philosophical and poetical perspectives and several poetic devices that are similar to those found in Cavalcanti's "Donna me prega."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations