Chaucer and Italian Culture | Hardback

Chaucer and Italian Culture | Hardback Description

Chaucerian scholarship has long been intrigued by the nature and consequences of Chaucer&s exposure to Italian culture during his professional visits to Italy in the 1370s. In the eight chapters of Chaucer and Italian Culture, leading scholars take a fresh and holistic view of Chaucer&s engagement with Italian cultural practice, moving beyond the traditional &sources and analogues& approach to reveal the varied strands of Italian literature, art, politics, and intellectual life which permeate Chaucer&s work. Each chapter unfolds, from a different lens, links between Chaucerian texts and Italian intellectual models, including poetics, choreography, visual art, classicism, diplomacy, and prophecy. Echoes of Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio reverberate throughout the book, across a rich and diverse landscape of Italian cultural legacies. Taken together, these eight chapters cover a wide range of theories and references while sharing a united understanding of the rich impact of Italian culture on Chaucer&s narrative art.