The English Boccaccio: A History in Books.
- Author / Editor
- Armstrong, Guyda.
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