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Events

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• ca. 1300 - Gesta Romanorum, anon.
• 1321 - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
• 1350 (approx) - The Tale of Gamelyn (anonymous)
• 1353 - The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.
• 1369 - The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer
• 1371 - The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (anonymous)
• 1375 - The Bruce by John Barbour
• 1390 Confessio Amantis by John Gower
• 1390s Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Births

• 1304 - Francesco Petrarca, later known as Petrarch.
• 1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio.
• 1343 - Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Deaths

• 1306 - Adam de la Halle
• 1316 (probable) - Ramon Llull
• September 14, 1321 - Dante Alighieri
• 1364 - Ranulf Higden, chronicler
• July 18, 1374 - Petrarch
• December 21, 1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio
• 1396 - John Barbour
• October 25, 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer