"Somnium Scipionis": Emulazione nell "Africa" del Petrarca e Input dei "Dream Poems" di Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Fontecedro, Emanuela Andreoni.

Title
"Somnium Scipionis": Emulazione nell "Africa" del Petrarca e Input dei "Dream Poems" di Chaucer.

Published
Italica 88 (2011): 335-52.

Description
Considers intertextual relations between Petrarch's "Africa" and Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis" as dream visions, focusing on the medieval poet's developments of the ancient poet's concern with fame and contempt for the world. Closes with comments on how, in HF and PF, Chaucer follows Petrarch, emphasizes poetic fame, and incorporates concern with love.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls