Chaucer's Tyrants of Lombardy.
- Author/Editor
- Hardman, Phillipa.
- Title
- Chaucer's Tyrants of Lombardy.
- Published
- Hardman, Phillipa. "Chaucer's Tyrants of Lombardy." Review of English Studies 31.122 (1980): 172-78.
- Review
- Exploring why Chaucer set both the Clerk's and the Merchant's tales in Lombardy, Hardman uses Gower's "Mirour de l'Omme" 23233-59 to help show that "knowledge of the tyrants of Lombardy" (172) was widespread, and that both Chaucer and Gower in "Confessio Amantis" VII.3118-19 set tyranny in opposition to pity. Hardman also cites Gower's "large-scale attack on financial abuses through the Lombards" (177) in MO 25432ff. and CA II.2100ff., evidence that the "tyrants of Lombardy seem to have had strong imaginative potential" (178) for Gower as well as for Chaucer. [MA. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 39.2]
- Date
- 1980
- Gower Subjects
- Mirour de l'Omme (Speculum Meditantis)
Confession Amantis
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations