The First Italian Criticism of Chaucer and Shakespeare.
- Author / Editor
- Dorris, George E.
The First Italian Criticism of Chaucer and Shakespeare.
- Published
- Romance Notes 6.2 (1965): 141-43.
- Description
- Identifies the earliest mention of Chaucer in Italian criticism, in the preface to Paolo Rolli's translation of Milton's epic, "Del Paradiso Perduto" (1729). Rolli's comments include recognition, perhaps the first, that Chaucer refers to Dante in MkT (7.2461); he also mentions Chaucer's debt to Petrarch and Boccaccio.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion