Descriptions of Pagan Divinities from Petrarch to Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Wilkins, Ernest H.
Descriptions of Pagan Divinities from Petrarch to Chaucer.
- Published
- Speculum 32.3 (1957): 511-22.
- Description
- Provides detailed background for Petrarch's ekphrastic descriptions of pagan gods in his "Africa" (iii.138-264), and argues that Chaucer's related descriptions in HF (131-39) and in KnT (1.1955-66) derive from the "Libellus de deorum imaginibus" (attributed to "Albricus Philosophus") rather than from Petrarch's work or from the "Ovidius moralizatus" of Pierre Bersuire (Petrus Berchorius).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Aanalogues, and Literary Relations
House of Faame
Knight and His Tale