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A Source for Spenser's Story of Timias and Belphebe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2021

Clara W. Crane
Clara W. Crane*
Affiliation:
Smith College
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Extract

It seems incredible that the analogues and sources for the “gentle bird” of reconciliation between Timias and Belphebe in the Faerie Queene (Bk. IV, 8, 3-12)—one of the loveliest guiding beasts in literature—should have escaped investigation. But, though a few scattered notes have been published on the passage in question, no one, so far as I am aware, has yet pointed out a satisfactory source or parallel.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , September 1928 , pp. 635 - 644
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1928

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References

page 635 note 1 R. E. N. Dodge, “Spenser's Imitations from Ariosto, Addenda,” PMLA, XXXV (1920), 91-92.

page 635 note 2 Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, tr. William Stewart Rose, London, 1823, v. 4, XIX, 37,5-8.

page 638 note 3 The text is quoted from the one volume edition by J. C. Smith and E. de Selincourt, Oxford, 1912.

page 638 note 4 The Faerie Queene, ed. J. Upton, 2 v. London, 1758, note on F. Q. IV, 8, 3-4.

page 639 note 5 Virgil, Æneid, tr. T. C. Williams, Boston, 1908, 6, 191 ff.

page 639 note 6 Faerie Queene, ed. R. Church, London, 1758.

page 640 note 7 F. J. Child, English end Scottish Popular Ballads, Boston, 1886, IV, 357.

page 641 note 8 Gibert de Montreuil, Roman dt la Violetie, on de Gerard de Nevers, Paris, 1834, 186-199.

page 642 note 9 It is to be observed that if Spenser borrowed Timiss ind Belphebe from Ariosto he had already effected one transformation from maiden to youth, for in Orlando Furiosi) it is Angelica who waxes ill of love as Medoro waxes well.

page 642 note 10 F.Q., IV, 8, 6: “By chance he certaine miniments forth drew.” And in Violetie Euriant's ring falls without being noticed.