The Religious View of Chaucer in His Italian Period (1).

Author / Editor
Ueno, Naozo.

Title
The Religious View of Chaucer in His Italian Period (1).

Published
[Folcroft, PA]: Folcroft Press, 1969. Reprinted from Kyoto: Doshisha University, 1956.

Physical Description
50 pp.

Series
Jimbungaku, no, 22.

Description
Focuses on TC as an example of Chaucer's outlook during his "Italian period," charting his borrowings and "digressions" from Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato." the influence of Boethius, and courtly love. Describes the attitudes toward Fortune of the major characters, especially Criseyde's "tenderhearted" blindness to it, and suggests Chaucer views Fortune as the "agent of Destiny." Also comments on KnT and LGW, suggesting the latter is a throwback to Chaucer "French period."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations