Nicholas Havely is senior lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He is the translator of Chaucer's Boccaccio (1980, 1992); editor of The House of Fame (1994), Chaucer's Dream Poetry (1997) and Dante's Modern Afterlife (1998); and author of numerous articles on Italian and English medieval literature, including the chapter on `Literature in Italian, French and English' in volume VI of The New Cambridge Medieval History (2000).
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on citations, translations and manuscript sources
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. From shame to honour: Tuscan and Franciscan poverty
2. Inferno: avarice and authority'
3. Purgatorio: poverty in spirit
4. Paradiso: poverty and authority
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.
