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Chaucer and the Italian Trecento
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Chaucer and the Italian Trecento
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Piero Boitani
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:328 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - classical, early and medieval
Literary studies - poetry and poets |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521313506
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| Classifications | Dewey:821.1 821/.1 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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| Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
8 August 1985 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This is the first paperback edition of a collection of essays which have aroused considerable interest, since their 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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