After analysing the relation between Boccaccio and Chaucer, the essay goes on to explore the first circulation of the Decameron in the British Isles, first observing the presence, in fifteenth-century manuscripts extant in England, of various novellas either in the original Italian or in Latin translations, then studying early translations of some of the novellas.
Boccaccio oltremanica. Il primo approdo del Decameron nelle Isole Britanniche
PETRINA, ALESSANDRA
2008
Abstract
After analysing the relation between Boccaccio and Chaucer, the essay goes on to explore the first circulation of the Decameron in the British Isles, first observing the presence, in fifteenth-century manuscripts extant in England, of various novellas either in the original Italian or in Latin translations, then studying early translations of some of the novellas.
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