%0 Journal Article
%T Chaucer and Petrarch: ¡°S¡¯amor non ¨¨¡± and the Canticus Troili
%A Warren Ginsberg
%J Humanist Studies & the Digital Age
%D 2011
%I University of Oregon Libraries
%R 10.5399/uo/hsda.1.1.1166
%X The scholastic ambience of S¡¯amor non ¨¨ (Rvf 132) is not accidental; in it Petrarch demolishes the medieval cornerstone of knowledge by contradicting Aristotle¡¯s law of non-contradiction. When Chaucer, however, translated the sonnet in the Troilus, he had to ponder its pensive U-turns within the framework of Boccaccio¡¯s Filostrato. From this perspective, Troilus¡¯s ¡°If no love is¡± is less a retort to the law of non-contradiction than an interrogation of the law of the excluded middle. Chaucer¡¯s Pandarus simultaneously substantiates the law and gives it the lie.
%K Petrarch
%K Chaucer
%U http://journals.oregondigital.org/hsda/article/view/1166