Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English
writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from
Italy. Without the tremendous influences of Francesco Petrarch and
Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of The Canterbury Tales might never
have assumed his place as the 'father' of English literature.
Nevertheless, Richard Owen's Chaucer's Italy begins in London,
where the poet dealt with Italian merchants in his roles as court
diplomat and customs official, before his involvement in arranging
the marriage of King Edward III's son Lionel in Milan and
diplomatic missions to Genoa and Florence. Scrutinising his
encounters with Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the mercenary knight John
Hawkwood, Owen reveals the deep influence of Italy's people and
towns on Chaucer's poems and stories. Much writing on Chaucer
depicts a misleadingly parochial figure, but, as Owen's
enlightening short study of Chaucer's Italian years makes clear,
the poet's life was internationally eventful. The consequences have
made the English canon what it is today.
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