Chaucer's Italy
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2022
Armchair Traveller (Verlag)
978-1-909961-83-8 (ISBN)
Armchair Traveller (Verlag)
978-1-909961-83-8 (ISBN)
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.
Chaucer enjoyed numerous international sojourns over the course of his eventful life, but there was one part of Europe that influenced his work like no other: Italy. Tracing Chaucer's journeys and his links to destinations such as Florence, Certaldo, Arqua, Pavia, and Milan, Richard Owen introduces us to the princes, knights, and authors with whom Chaucer mixed.
Richard Owen's illuminating new account leaves no doubt that, without the influence of Italian luminaries such as Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, the English canon ' fathered' by Chaucer would never have existed as we know it.
Chaucer enjoyed numerous international sojourns over the course of his eventful life, but there was one part of Europe that influenced his work like no other: Italy. Tracing Chaucer's journeys and his links to destinations such as Florence, Certaldo, Arqua, Pavia, and Milan, Richard Owen introduces us to the princes, knights, and authors with whom Chaucer mixed.
Richard Owen's illuminating new account leaves no doubt that, without the influence of Italian luminaries such as Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, the English canon ' fathered' by Chaucer would never have existed as we know it.
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 | 21.04.2022 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 205 mm |
| Gewicht | 336 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-909961-83-3 / 1909961833 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-909961-83-8 / 9781909961838 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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