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Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in 1343, we don't know much about his life, but we know that he died in 1400 and he was considered the father of English literature, he took part in the Hundred Years War in 1359 and he met Petrarch while he was sent to Italy in 1372.

He wrote many works that we can divide him in 3 periods:

1)The French period, influenced by French models, that include his translations of the Roman de La Rose;

2)The Italian period, in which he was inspired by the italian poets Dante and Boccaccio. Dante's Divine Comedy inspired Chaucer for The House of Fame.

3)The English period, in the last part of his life, saw the writing of his most famous work: “The Canterbury Tales”.

As said, Chaucer's most famous work is The Canterbury Tales. Left uncompleted, it was planned to be composed by 120 tales, but at the moment of Chaucer's death only 24 of them written completely. It is considered one of the greatest works ever written in English.

The poem is structured as a group of interlinked stories told by a group of pilgrims durig their journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury. After a prologue, Chaucer describes summarily the pilgrims with a nice touch of good humor and irony, making us learn about their qualities, social standing and weaknesses.

The pilgrims begin their journey at Tabard Inn, a tavern where the host proposes a tale-telling competition with an unknown prize for the best story. On the other hand, she’s described as deaf and not so beautiful, and, eventhough she were a good churchwoman, she had five churched husbands and many sexual experiences in her youth. With this contrast and the woman's mastery of the "art of love" Chaucer gives us the image of an indipendent woman, with feminist-like values that uses her qualities to be respected and mantained economically. All of these aspects make the Wife of Bath a modern character.

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English literature: Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in 1343, he participated in the Hundred Years War which was held in France. This led Chaucer to carry out various diplomatic missions both at home and abroad. Among the many trips he made, he also visited Italy where he met Petrarch, Boccaccio and Dante; hence his passion for literature that will lead him to write several works that are divided into three periods: French period, Italian period and English period.

In the French period, Chaucer was influenced by several French models where he translated the book “Roman de la Rose”.

During the Italian period, Chaucer followed Italian models in particular Petrarca, Boccaccio and Dante, with whom he will be friends. During this period he wrote two important works “The house of Fame”and “Parliament of false”. Chaucer writes the most important work of his collection in the English period”The Canterbury Tales”. This work was to be published in 1387 but this did not happen because Chaucer died.

As said, Chaucer’s most famous work is The Canterbury Tales. Left uncompleted, it was planned to be composed by 120 tales: one group of pilgrims was going to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket. They stopped at the tabard where the host suggested to tell, two tales going to the Canterbury and two tales coming back. At the end the best tales will get a prince. The pilgrim be longed to different social classes; consequently the tales included different tames for example love, marriage, hypocrisy etc.

Heach tales included a prologue were each pilgrims described I’m self or-self.   The most important tale of Chaucer is “The Wife of Bath”.The story tell about a woman( the wife of bath ), that come from bath, she was an housewife and she was the greatest at making clothes in England and she. Bettered those of other French cities.

This woman wear the finest clothes, she was a churched woman but she also had 5 husband’s,  cause of her churched life she travelled to some religious cities like Rome, Cologne and other.

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Geoffrey chaucer was born in 1343 in London, wrote many works that we  divide in three periods:
•the French period, influenced by French models :
•the Italian period, in which he was inspired by the italian poets Dante , petrarch and Boccaccio;
•the English period, saw the writing of his most famous work: The Canterbury Tales.
We don't know much about his life, but we surely know that he took part in the Hundred Years War in 1359, that he probably met Petrarch while he was sent to Italy in 1372.. He died in 1400.
As said, Chaucer's most famous work is The Canterbury Tales. Left uncompleted, it was planned to be composed by 120 tales, but at the moment of Chaucer's death only 24 of them written completely. Despite that, it is considered one of the greatest works ever written in English.
The poem is structured as a group of interlinked stories told by a group of pilgrims durig their journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury. After a prologue, Chaucer describes summarily the pilgrims with a nice touch of good humor and irony, making us learn about their qualities, social standing and weaknesses.
The pilgrims begin their journey at Tabard Inn, a tavern where the host proposes a tale-telling competition with an unknown prize for the best story.
One of the most kown pilgrims is the Wife of Bath a houswife with the hobby of making superbe quality clothes. On the other hand, she is described as deaf and not so beautiful, and, eventhough she were a good churchwoman, she had five churched husbands and many sexual experiences in her youth. With this contrast and the woman's mastery of the "art of love" Chaucer gives us the image of an indipendent woman, with feminist-like values that uses her qualities to be respected and mantained economically.

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Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London into a middle class family. His father, a wine merchant, sent him to be a page in the household of the third son of king Edward III.

In addition to diplomatic trips to France, Chaucer also went to Flanders in 1377 and to Italy in 1372 and 1378. He became justice of the place and knight of the Shire for Kent.

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Chaucer’s production is divided into three phases: French, Italian and English.

During his “French phase” his poetic models were French, especially allegorical poems on courtly love such as “Le Roman de la Rose”. Of his Italian phase the best work  is “Troilus and Criseyde” a free rendering of Boccaccio’s “Filostrato”.

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Nicastro Giorgia-The wife of Bath

The wife of Bath is a tales of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. This tales talk about a housewife who was good at making cloths. She was deaf in one ear, she had nice cloths, new shoes and a heavy scarf. She has the space between her teeth. She was a strong and determined woman, she did not allow herself to be conditioned. She was married five times even if she was a church woman. She was economically wealthy, her money came from her husband and the charity of the church. She traveled a lot in some religious cities. She went on trips to meet new men, not to go on a pilgrimage.

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Geoffrey Chaucer, The wife of Bath

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The Wife of Bath begins the prologue to her tale by boasting of her experience in marriage. She has already married five men, and she ignores the idea that this is a reproach to Christian principles. She is adhering only to the principle of being fruitful and multiply. She cites the case of King Solomon, who had multiple wives, and tells that she welcomes the opportunity for her sixth husband. She also points out that Jesus never lays down a law about virginity.

Then she decides to speak about each of her husbands. Three were good and two were young men. The good ones were kind, rich and old. She would withhold sex from them to get the riches they might offer her. She would use guilt and jealousy against them, along with other manipulative techniques.

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Pierfrancesco Maugeri -Chaucer and the wife of bath

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The Wife of bath is a storyteller Who recites her autobiography. She travelled around the world ad a pilgrim, visiting jerusalem, Boulogne, Rome,Santiago de Compostela and Cologne and now she is doing piligrimage to Canterbury. She was deaf in one ear and this was unlucky because she was very good at  sewing she confesses that she got married five Times and she had many lovers when she was young. The wife is exacltly what the medieval Church saw as a wicked woman and she is proud of it. she is wealthy resoucerful and an expert embroiderer and she usually wears extravagant clothes, including scarlet tights and very expensive leather shoes. She is descrived as gap-toothed, red in hue and handsome, having large hips and a bold face. She says thet three husbands of hers have been bad. The first three were good, she admits, mostly because they were rich, old and submissive. She admits proudly to using her verbal and sexual power to bring her husbands to total submissions.

-GEOFFREY CHAUCER (Biography)
Geoffrey Chaucer was born about 1343, the son of rich Wine merchant in London .
Geoffrey followed Edward Ill’s son to war in France where was taken  prisoner and ransomed by the king himslef in 1360 so Chaucer grow up in cose with the Royal family  And traveled from England france.
The king sent him on varius missions. Between 1368 and 1378, bis journeys brought him also to italy where ne became  interested in Dante Petrarch and Boccaccio. In 1374 he was also appointed to the Office of contreller of the customs on wool and hides in the port of london. He was also a member of parliament for kent . He was then a prosperus bourgeois sice his
Marriage to a wealthy lady had brought him a considerableme income. The yeah 1386 was a difficult one for chaucer he was dismissed from all his offices and this left him without income.  He bagen to work on the canterbury tales in this period.
In 1389 was appointed clark of the king’s works at wesinsters. He was the first poet to be buried
In the poet’s corner in Westminister Abbey.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSOUU29c-g

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https://digilander.libero.it/vistidaleggio/chaucer_boccaccio.htm