Did Chaucer Know Livy?

Author / Editor
Scala, Elizabeth.

Title
Did Chaucer Know Livy?

Published
Notes and Queries 68 (2021): 255-58.

Description
Explores intertextual relations among versions of the Virginia / Virginius story (by Livy, Bersuire, Gower, and Chaucer), focusing on how the depiction of Virginia's mother in both Gower and Chaucer "offers a broader semblance of propriety by assuring Virginius's legitimate paternity," and indicates that in PhyT Chaucer "reveals how he knew his Livy" through Gower.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations