... presentation of the dilemma faced by the medieval writer when attempting to justify his fiction by a reference to a prestigious authoritative text, to Chaucer's daring attempt to challenge his famous predecessors, generated by his own ambition toward authority. Interestingly, the form of a dream-vision excuses any daring attempts on Chaucer's part to manipulate and revise the characters and themes of authoritative texts ... and to comment on the unreliability and lack of credibility of the traditional sources. Furthermore, the form ... Inferno, Dante does not seem to follow Virgil simply...

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