This paperback consists of a collection of essays which have
aroused considerable interest, since their first publication in
1983, in a question that has been occupying scholars for many
years: what did fourteenth-century Italy and its literature mean to
Chaucer? In the first part of the book contributors assess the
general state of English and Italian culture in the fourteenth
century and the complex network of Anglo-Italian relationships in
the areas of trade, finance, church organisation and academic
exchange. The second part faces the literary problem that Chaucer's
borrowing from Italian authors poses: not only what he takes, but
how and why. These essays include source studies and comparative
analyses of such masterpieces as The Divine Comedy, The Canzoniere,
The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales.
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