A Middle English Translation from Petrarch's “Secretum."
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, Edward, ed., completed with an introduction by Daniel Wakelin.
A Middle English Translation from Petrarch's “Secretum."
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 96 pp.; 2 b&w illus.
- Series
- Early English Text Society, o.s., no. 351.
- Description
- Edits the Middle English verse translation (906 lines) of the Prologue and Book I of Francis Petrarch's Latin prose dialogue "Secretum de contemptu mundi," with a comprehensive introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary. The introduction and notes include recurrent references to Chaucer's influence on the verse, style, and diction of the translation, as well as to Chaucer's uses of Petrarch as a source.
- Contributor
- Wakelin, Daniel, intro.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations