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Geoffrey Chaucer - Coggle Diagram
Geoffrey Chaucer
Born in London
fine education
close with the royal family
son of a wine merchant
travelled in
France
Italy
interested in
Petrarch
Dante
Boccaccio
controller of customs
member of parliement
may have supported the Lollardy movement
literary periods
Italian period
Maturity in the use of metre
English period
Greater realism
French period
French romance styles
and subjects.
1386
dismissed from his offices
started to work on the Canterbury Tales