Venus' Citole in Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Berchorius.
- Author / Editor
- Steadman, John M.
Venus' Citole in Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Berchorius.
- Published
- Speculum 34 (1959): 620-24.
- Description
- Argues that the "citole" held in Venus's right hand in KnT 1.1959 evinces the influence of "the 'Ovidius moralizatus' of Petrus Berchorius (Pierre Bersuire)," and explores the possibilities of other influences on the depictions of Venus in KnT and in HF, the "Libellus deorum imaginibus" and the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" of Francesco Colonna.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
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