Chaucer biography timeline examples

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    • A Brief Chronology of Chaucer's Life and Times

    1300          Dante's Divine Comedy.

    1300          Birth of Guillaume de Machaut, French musician and poet (died 1377).

    1304          Birth of Francis Petrarch (died 1374).

    1313          Birth of Giovanni Boccaccio (died 1375).

    1321          Death of Dante Alighieri (born 1265).

    1330          Birth of John Gower (died 1408).

    1335          Boccaccio's Il Filostrato (source of Troilus).

    1336-38     Boccaccio's Il Filocolo (possible source of The Franklin's Tale).

    1337          Hundred Years War begins (ends 1453).

    1339          Boccaccio begins Il Teseida delle Nozze d'Emilia (source of The Knight's Tale).

    1340-45    Birth of Chaucer.

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