Dante and the Author of the "Decameron."
- Author / Editor
- Eisner, Martin.
Dante and the Author of the "Decameron."
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 286-302.
- Description
- Argues "that far from being occasional, accidental, or haphazard, Boccaccio's engagement with Dante structures the authorial interventions in the frame of the "'Decameron/." Traces Boccaccio's use of Dante to demonstrate how Chaucer uses Boccaccio in similar ways.
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations