Table of Contents

Introduction: Forms of Translatio
Father of English Poetry, Father of Humanism: When Chaucer "met" Petrarch
'The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen': Petrarchan Inversions in Chaucer's Filostrato
'But if that I consente': The First English Sonnet
'Mutata veste': Griselda between Boccaccio and Petrarch
'Of hire array what sholde I make a tale?': Griselda between Petrarch and Chaucer
Conclusion: 'translacions and enditynges'
Bibliography

About the Author

WILLIAM ROSSITER Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, University of East Anglia.

Reviews

A careful consideration of the relationship between Chaucer and Petrarch, but its reach beyond that narrow focus also makes it a valuable addition to the wider field of work on Chaucer and the tre corone.
*MEDIUM AEVUM*

[P]rovides a wealth of information and many intriguing readings.
*STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER*

A thorough and scholarly consideration of the subject [and] a valuable addition to the wider field of work on Chaucer and the tre corone.
*MEDIUM AEVUM*