The English Boccaccio: A History in Books.

Author / Editor
Armstrong, Guyda.

Title
The English Boccaccio: A History in Books.

Published
Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2013.

Physical Description
xv, 464 pp.; 25 b&w figs.

Description
Describes the translation and reception history of Boccaccio's work in English "from the fifteenth century to the twentieth," including discussion of the role of Chaucer and of Chaucer studies as impetus for nineteenth-century interest, popular and professional, in Boccaccio as a source for Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations