The Prophetic Eagle in Italy, England and Wales: Dante, Chaucer and Insular Political Prophecy.

Author / Editor
Flood, Victoria.

Title
The Prophetic Eagle in Italy, England and Wales: Dante, Chaucer and Insular Political Prophecy.

Published
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 169-92.

Description
Examines the significance of the eagle as a "common symbol of empire in medieval political prophecy." Discusses how the "Dantean figure of the Eagle" in the "Inferno" is transformed by Chaucer into a "humorous--and human--personality" in HF.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Italian Culture

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations