Monday, April 1, 2019 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM
AUR Auditorium, Via Pietro Roselli 16
The American University in Rome in conjunction with the University of Kent Rome School of Classical and Renaissance Studies present 'Chaucer in Italy'.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) was ahead of his time. Having visited Italy twice on diplomatic missions he modeled a significant number of his narratives on works by Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch, long before these writers were 'discovered' during the English Renaissance. This lecture will consider Chaucer's encounter with Italian culture and how it prompted a rebirth of his creative outlook.
Peter Brown is Professor of English Medieval Literature at the University of Kent and Academic Director of its Paris School of Arts and Culture. He has recently edited A New Companion to Chaucer (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) and is the author of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford University Press, 2011).
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