Chaucer's Italian Tradition

Ginsberg, Warren

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“…Two important studies appeared in 2002: Warren Ginsberg, Chaucer’s Italian Tradition and Robert R. Edwards, Chaucer and Boccaccio . Each is concerned to investigate the complexity of Chaucer’s intertextuality.…”

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“…The most important direction provided by a work such as Simpson (2006), and implicit in that of Ginsberg (2002), for example, is the crucial task of attending to contexts, developing sustained and engaged analyses of the nuance available to Chaucer when he went to Italy. It is often the case that the Italian trecento is studied solely in modern translation, greatly restricting consideration of wider literary contexts.…”

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Chaucer and Italy: Contexts and/of Sources

Clarke

2011

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This critical overview of Chaucer and Italy examines the sources he encountered there, such as Boccaccio’s Filostrato, Teseida and Decameron as well as Dante’s Comedìa. It covers the most important and influential publications on the subject since the early 1980s, as well as highlighting new and forthcoming work. This new work emphasizes the material contexts of these sources, such as the commentaries frequently accompanying the early copies of the Comedìa, and the influence of Boccaccio’s own early manuscripts on subsequent copies of his work. Work on Chaucer’s Italian sources remains vital and stimulating and offers Chaucerians a wealth of new reading contexts for his work.

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Clarke

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Continental Influences

Gaston

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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This entry discusses French and Italian influences on English literature, beginning in the twelfth century and focusing on poetry inflected by Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Romance of the Rose . Tracing various authors' adaptations of the Narcissus myth, it shows how intertextual connections and relationships of influence helped shape the way that vernacular writers represented the role of the poet and the function and value of poetry.

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Literature andDiplomacy

Rossiter¹

2018

The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy

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The relationships between literature and diplomacy are plural, ancient, and reciprocal. This entry examines the history of those relationships from the fourteenth century to the present day, from the end of feudalism and the birth of humanism, and the ambassadorial practices attendant upon each, to present‐day international relations and literary responses to diplomatic handling of global terrorism. The entry focuses in its first section on the figure of the author‐diplomat, turning to the products of those figures in the second section, which considers representations and imitations of diplomats, diplomatic process, and diplomatic rhetoric. Genres of literary diplomacy are suggested (for example, lyric, dramatic, romantic) in order to trace specific traditions of representation.

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Chaucer's Italian Tradition

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Chaucer and Italy: Contexts and/of Sources

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