Vision and Touch in Dante and Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Sturges, Robert S.

Title
Vision and Touch in Dante and Chaucer.

Published
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 120-44.

Description
Focuses on TC's connections with Dante's "Convivio" and "Vita nuova." Although there is no “evidence for direct borrowing from the 'Vita nova,'” Sturges claims that Chaucer's and Dante's "sensory aspects of love" are similar in the three works, therefore suggesting the "indirect influence" of Dante's texts upon Chaucer

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Italian Culture

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde