Chaucer's Italy

Richard Owen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2023
Armchair Traveller (Verlag)
978-1-914982-04-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Richard Owen was The Times Rome correspondent for fifteen years. He has written several works of non-fiction, including Crisis in the Kremlin and, with Haus, DH Lawrence in Italy and Hemingway in Italy.

Introduction: Chaucer and Ytaille // 1

1. Italy on the Thames // 19

2. The Milan Wedding // 35

3. Francesco Petrarch // 47

4. The Tale of Patient Griselda // 59

5. A Mission to Genoa // 71

6. Loans and Poems in Florence // 81

7. Giovanni Boccaccio // 93

8. The Knight's Tale // 105

9. Florence and Canterbury // 115

10. The Mission to Lombardy // 131

11. A Parfit Gentil Knyght? // 143

12. The Library at Pavia // 157

13. Rome and Avignon // 165

14. The Later Years // 179

Conclusion: Chaucer the Poeta Elegante // 189

Acknowledgements // 195

Bibliography // 199

Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-914982-04-5 / 1914982045
ISBN-13	978-1-914982-04-0 / 9781914982040
Zustand	Neuware