Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England: The Collision of Two Worlds
- Author / Editor
- Hughes, Jonathan.
Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England: The Collision of Two Worlds
- Published
- New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 426 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- Studies the reception of Dante in England, 1370–1450, focusing on ecclesiastical concerns about the "Divine Comedy" (DC) and literary responses to the poem and its worldview. Includes assessment of possible routes for Chaucer's initial access to DC (through travel and otherwise) and contrasts the poets' uses of the vernacular and their attitudes toward the literary legacy of Rome, especially Statius and Virgil. Reviews connections between DC and HF, TC, MkT, and other works, with an extended discussion of parallels between Criseyde and Dante's Francesca. Recurrently suggests Chaucer's role in mediating Dante's influence and emphasizes their intellectual differences.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Soutces, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Life
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde
Monk and His Taler