The influence of Chaucer's encounter with Italian literature is felt in the poems he wrote in the late 1370's and early 1380s – The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls and a version of The Knight's Tale – and finds its fullest expression in Troilus and Criseyde. 1368) is commemorated in Chaucer's ealrist major poem, The Book of the Duchess.įrom 1374 Chaucer worked as controller of customs on wool in the port of London, but between 13 he made a number of trips abroad on official business, including two trips to Italy in 1372. 1370) and third wife (1396) of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, whose first wife Blanche (d. 1365, was the sister of Katherine Swynford, the mistress (c. Chaucer's wife Philippa, whom he married c. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented.
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