Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Diplomatic missions

Kent representative in Parliament

esquire royal court

customs controller London port

Hundred Years' War

Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)

English literature

he was able to

one of the first English poet to be known by name

his language gradually became standard English

the basis of Modern English

His father was a merchant

an excellent education

Dante

Petrarch

Boccaccio

served three kings

Richard II

Edward III

Henry IV

Sottoargomento

1343-1400