Geoffrey Chauser
c. 1312-1313
Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer's father, John Chaucer. 1313
Birth of Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet.
1321
Death of Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet, soon after the completion of the Divina Commedia.
1327
Accession of Edward III, aged 14.
1340
Boccaccio writes Filocolo.
c. 1340-1345
Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Hundred Years' War between England and France.
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1338
Completion of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato.
1340
Birth of Eustache Deschamps,......
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