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... Italy , and England , and in his poetry there is strong French influence , and a lesser Italian phase , while in his final period The Canterbury Tales made him , through the Prologue and the interlinking passages between the tales , the ...
... Italy , and England , and in his poetry there is strong French influence , and a lesser Italian phase , while in his final period The Canterbury Tales made him , through the Prologue and the interlinking passages between the tales , the ...
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... Italy . Hundreds of manu- scripts of the works of antiquity were carried from Greece into Italy during the early decades of the fifteenth century , while universities increased and flourished . By the crucial year 1453 , when the Turks ...
... Italy . Hundreds of manu- scripts of the works of antiquity were carried from Greece into Italy during the early decades of the fifteenth century , while universities increased and flourished . By the crucial year 1453 , when the Turks ...
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... Italy the Church stood firm amid the swirling and conflicting currents of secular enlightenment , mainly by taking into itself through the Renaissance popes and other ecclesiastics much of the spirit of the age , and by becoming itself ...
... Italy the Church stood firm amid the swirling and conflicting currents of secular enlightenment , mainly by taking into itself through the Renaissance popes and other ecclesiastics much of the spirit of the age , and by becoming itself ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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