Legend of Lucresse

 Main Sources:

Ovid, Fasti 2.685-852

Livy, 1.57-59 (Skeat, Shannon, Frank)

Augustine, City of God 1.(18-)19

(referred to in Higden, Polychronicon [Trevisa trans.] 3.6 [Delany]) 

Others:

Gesta Romanorum 135 (Frank)

Simon of Hesdin, trans. of Valerius Maximus, Memorabilia 6.1 (McCall) 

Mentions:

Jerome, Adversus Jovinianum 1.46

Gesta Romanorum (Swan, trans.), p. 239 (Frank; Kiser)

Jacques de Cessoles (Frank)

solacium Ludi Schaccorum (Frank)

Le Menagier de Paris (Power, trans.), pp. 101-5 (Frank, Kiser)

Romance of the Rose 8608-50 (Frank; Kiser)

Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus 46 (Frank) 

English Contemporaries:

Holcot – see Smalley, English Friars, 155-56, 321 (Frank)

Gower, Confessio Amantis 7.4754-5130

Lydgate (Frank) 

 

Chaucer

Ovid, Fasti

Livy

Augustine

Gower

Others

 

 

 

 

 

 

1680-885

2.685-852

1.57-59

City of God 1.18-19

CA 7.4754-5130

Cf. BD 714-37 (Delany)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1680

2.685

 

 

 

 

1694-778

2.721-52

 

 

 

 

1703

2.731 (Shannon)

 

 

 

 

1705 (name)

Cf. 2.733 (no: Shannon)

1.57 (Skeat; Shannon; Frank)

1.19, 2.17 (Shannon; Frank)

 

Gesta (Frank)

1705-7

Cf. 2.734

 

 

 

Whiting W642

1708-09

 

1.57 (Skeat; no: Shannon)

 

 

 

1716-17

2.738

 

 

 

 

1721

2.742

 

 

 

 

1725

 

 

 

 

Cf. HF 2053

1729

Cf. 2.751-52

 

 

 

 

1773

2.782

 

 

 

Whiting H96

1779-84

Cf. 2.787-91

Cf. 1.58

 

 

 

1789-81

Cf. 2.793-811

 

 

 

 

1812-18

2.810

1.58

 

Cf. CA 7.4986-87

 

1825-38

2.813-20

 

 

 

 

1829-31

Cf.2.813-14 (Shannon)

 

 

 

 

1841-42

 

 

 

 

Whiting H277; cf. Troilus 3.114

1847-49

2.829 (Shannon)

(Skeat; some doubted by Shannon)

 

Cf. CA 7.5048-57

 

1847-70

Cf. 2.829-52

 

 

Cf. CA 7. 5060ff

 

1852-53

Cf. 2.830

Cf. 1.58

 

 

 

1855-59

2.834

 

 

 

Cf. Meta. 13.479-80

1860

Cf. 2.833-34

 

 

 

 

1870-72

Cf. 2.841-43 (Shannon)

 

 

 

 

1879-81

 

 

 

 

Matt. 15.28; cf. Matt 8.10; Luke 7.9