Guido Cavalcanti's Theory of Love and Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
D'Agata D'Ottavi, Stefania.

Title
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