The Haunting of Geoffrey Chaucer: Dante, Boccaccio and the Ghostly Poetics of the "Trecento."

Author / Editor
Robinson, James.

Title
The Haunting of Geoffrey Chaucer: Dante, Boccaccio and the Ghostly Poetics of the "Trecento."

Published
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 45-90.

Description
Demonstrates "intertexuality" linking Chaucer with Dante's "Inferno," 10, and Boccaccio's "Decameron," 6.9. Argues for Chaucer’s rich understanding of his Italian source material, which he uses "purposefully and playfully."

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Italian Culture

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations