Chaucer’s Petrarch: "enlumyned ben they.”

Author / Editor
Martinez, Ronald L.

Title
Chaucer’s Petrarch: "enlumyned ben they.”

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 325-50.

Description
Traces the connections between Petrarch and Dante for Chaucer, while simultaneously showing the depth of Petrarch’s influence on Chaucer's verse. Discusses fame and Petrarch in ClT, MkT, and TC.

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde
Clerk and His Tale
Monk and His Tale