Resumo de Geoffrey Chaucer: Biography

Geoffrey Chaucer: Been born biography
to London, probably between 1340 and 1343, from one prospers family of the mercantile rank (the father was wine wholesaler), divenne soon valletto to the service of the moglie of Lionel, one of the sons of Edoardo III. Subsequently it was to the continuation of real shipments in France, where it was made captive and then redeemed. It was then gradually, person in charge of diplomatic missions still in France, Spain and Italy, supervisor to London customs, judge of peace, deputy to the parliament in representation of the county of the Kent, where it had been moved, in charge of the jobs of construction and of the maintenance of ten real residences, between which the Tower of London and the palace of Westminster, forest civil employee. It was married, it had male descendancys and feminine, not only financial institution knew some disavventura, but also judicial, from which it exited substantially undamaged, it endured the altalenanti fates of the real favor. It died in the 1400, coming buried, com'era one its right, in the abbey of social Westminster.Ambito of the works: In spite of the importance that the literary activity came to assume in its existence, it goes however emphasized that it never did not constitute for Chaucer a source of maintenance, but more rather offered a shelter to it from the daily tasks, as it emerges from the self-portrait, typically venato of light irony, than Chaucer it proposes to us for mouth of the Aquila, one of the personages of The House of Hunger (the House of the Reputation).
In the within of canone the greater chauceriano, only before the work, The Book of the Duchess (the Book of the Duchessa, 1368 or the years immediately succeeded to you), unquestionably was conceived for an aristocratic adressee, John of Gaunt, the more powerful feudatario of the reign; and in more Legend of the excellent women only delays The Legend of Good Women () seemed to be shades personages to you of real rank. For the rest, the public to which Chaucer addressed was constituted in prevalence from the same one cerchia which anch'egli he belonged, made of civil employees and gentiluomini of the small nobility of court. For this cerchia gross English was not a mere language of service, good only for the daily communication, but she could ambire to replace the French like instrument of literary, dignitosa and elegant expression. In all its literary production, of the rest, Chaucer is always turned to a public one within one wraps fundamentalally medium from the social point of view, and it can itself be verified from the Canterbury Tales (Storys of Canterbury). In an age in which the necessity of the hierarchical order was presupposing not subject to argument, in how much glare on this earth of the order of the waxed and intentional universe from God, he notices himself in the immense panorama of the Canterubry Tales, or better of the pilgrim-narrators who of popolano the frame, a social order comprising the three traditional orders of the medieval society - the secular aristocracy, the religious ones, the workers of the earth -, with to an other composita category of craftsmen and bourgeois small, tied instead to the contingent truth of western Europe of late the 1300's. However, inside this immense phantom, the ends lack: lay the more eminent condition is the knight, exponent of the small not sure nobility of crews and of the high aristocracy of court; between the religious ones, the personage more spiritually elevated is the campaign parish priest; between the workers, ploughman, the idealizzata figure, and not to case brother of the parish priest, and however free man, small owner of cattle. Literary characteristics of the works: In the critic, the chauceriana work initially was periodizzata in a French?, continuation from one ?Italian? and culminating phase ?in one ?English?, but subsequently such division was accused of superficialità. Chaucer in fact assimilated, riversoli in its poemi, models forms them and contenutistici first French and then Italian, without being for this ?a less English? poet. Its creative way can be defined like marked from inesausto a sperimentalismo and one more and more complex diversification of the inner members to the same text. Above all in the ?Canterbury Tales?, capolavoro of the late maturity, that it assumes also shapes, unknown for England of the time, commistione of the kinds and the styles, embracing aspects of the experience that include humble and the daily paper, features from the direct observation of the contemporary English truth. It goes moreover found that the prestige of the French culture too much large and was too much tightened the ties of every risen between the two sides of the Sleeve, because the debut of the career of man of letters of Chaucer did not have to bring of signs than more obvious

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