Chaucer and the Italian trecento / edited by Piero Boitani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boitani, Piero.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Sources.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Knowledge and learning--Italy.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Italy.

Italian literature--To 1400--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Italy--Civilization--1268-1559.

Civilization.

Italy--In literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 313 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Contents:

1 Chaucer's Italy / John Larner Larner, John

2 English culture in the fourteenth-century / Janet Coleman Coleman, Janet

3 Anglo-Italian contacts in the fourteenth century / Wendy Childs Childs, Wendy

4 Chaucer, Dante and Boccaccio / J. A. W. Bennett Bennett, J. A. W.

5 What Dante meant to Chaucer / Piero Boitani Boitani, Piero

6 Chaucer and Boccaccio's early writings / David Wallace Wallace, David

7 Chaucer and the Filostrato / Barry Windeatt Windeatt, Barry

8 Style, iconography and narrative: the lesson of the Teseida / Piero Boitani Boitani, Piero

9 The wake of the Commedia: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's Decameron / Robin Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick, Robin

10 The Griselda story in Boccaccio, Petrarch and Chaucer / Robin Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick, Robin

11 Chaucer, Boccaccio and the friars / Nicholas Havely Havely, Nicholas

12 Chaucer and Boccaccio's Latin works / Peter Godman Godman, Peter

13 Chaucer and the Italian Trecento: a bibliography / Enrico Giaccherini Giaccherini, Enrico.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 297-304.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0521239982

OCLC:

8806266