Thanks to his many diplomatic delicate assignments he travelled broadly throughout Europe, including Italy where he became fascinated by Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, here he also widened his knowledge of Latin literature, especially Virgil.Ĭhaucer is the first English secular poet and the Father of English poetry because he wrote in London’s dialect which soon became the standard spoken language, laying thus the basis for Modern English. However, in 1386, he fell in disgrace and lost all his charges until, in 1389, he was appointed Clerk of the King’s Works in Westminster till his death. Indeed he was appointed to many official charges among which, for instance, Controller of Customs on Wool and Hides (pelli di animali di grossa taglia) in 1374 he was Member of Parliament for Kent furthermore, due to his political knowledge, was sent on many diplomatic missions on behalf of the king. Geoffrey Chaucer came from a family that belonged to the urban middle class and yet benefitted from the Crown’s trust.
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