"Glorie of Spayne"Juan Ruiz Through the Eyes of an Englishman

Resumo

In 1849 G. Ticknor was the first to point out that the Libro de Buen Amor, a book by the famous Spanish fourteenth-century writer Juan Ruiz, presented some similarities with Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Nevertheless, it was not after S. Honoré-Duvergé’s 1955 article about the probable visit to Spain of the English poet, that the referred issue was researched seriously. Thus, at the end of the 1960s, T. J. Garbáty published a series of articles in which he gathered much information about the hypothetical connections between the Libro de Buen Amor and Chaucer, focusing on the latter’s Troilus and Cryseide. Chaucer always showed great interest for the literature of the countries he visited. Mine is an attempt to collect the most relevant data on this topic to date and to offer new perspectives for approaching it