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| c. 1260 |
| | | A new form of poetry is written in northern Italy, described later by Dante as a sweet new style - the dolce stil nuovo | |
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| c. 1307 |
| | | Dante, in exile from Florence, begins work on The Divine Comedy - completing it just before his death, 14 years later | |
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| 1327 |
| | | Petrarch glimpses Laura in a church in Avignon and falls helplessly in love with her - or so he tells us | |
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| 1341 |
| | | A laurel wreath is placed on the brow of Petrarch in Rome, in a renewal of interest in the classical world | |
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| c. 1367 |
| | | A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman | |
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| 1367 |
| | | One of four new yeomen of the chamber in Edward III's household is Geoffrey Chaucer | |
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| c. 1370 |
| | | The Persian poet Hafiz perfects a form of short poem, the ghazal, dwelling on the pleasures of life with an undercurrent of Sufi mysticism | |
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| c. 1375 |
| | | The courtly poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells of a mysterious visitor to the round table of King Arthur | |
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| 1385 |
| | | Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy | |
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| c. 1387 |
| | | Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death | |
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