Chaucer's Italy.
- Author / Editor
- Owen, Richard.
Chaucer's Italy.
- Published
- London: Haus, 2022.
- Physical Description
- v, 216 pp.
- Description
- Interpretive biography and critical exploration of Chaucer's professional, diplomatic, and literary engagements with Italy, Italians, and Italian culture, seeking to "follow in Chaucer’s footsteps--to Milan, Genoa, Florence, Pavia, and beyond--and describe what he would have seen and experienced." Explores Chaucer’s literary relations with Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sercambi, and others up to Pier Paolo Pasolini, addressing Italian Chaucer scholarship, and emphasizing the range and variety of Italian topics in Chaucer's life and works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations