Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

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Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

Geoffrey Chaucer is the author of The Canterbury Tales. This landmark collection, written in late 14th-century Middle English, centers on a group of pilgrims telling stories as they travel to Canterbury. Chaucer is celebrated for elevating English as a language of major literature, moving away from Latin or French and showing how vernacular storytelling could be sophisticated and varied. Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy in Italian about a century earlier, Shakespeare belongs to the late 16th and early 17th centuries and is known for his plays, and Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance artist and thinker rather than the author of this work.

Geoffrey Chaucer is the author of The Canterbury Tales. This landmark collection, written in late 14th-century Middle English, centers on a group of pilgrims telling stories as they travel to Canterbury. Chaucer is celebrated for elevating English as a language of major literature, moving away from Latin or French and showing how vernacular storytelling could be sophisticated and varied. Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy in Italian about a century earlier, Shakespeare belongs to the late 16th and early 17th centuries and is known for his plays, and Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance artist and thinker rather than the author of this work.

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