This article analyses John Lydgate's translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus virorum illustrium, focusing on the prologue to Book IV and using this prologue, original to Lydgate's translation, to highlight the relation between writer and patron.

Translation and Lancastrian Politics: Duke Humphrey and the Prologue to Book IV of John Lydgate's Fall of Princes

PETRINA, ALESSANDRA
2007

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This article analyses John Lydgate's translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus virorum illustrium, focusing on the prologue to Book IV and using this prologue, original to Lydgate's translation, to highlight the relation between writer and patron.
2007
The Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age 10
9782503525358
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