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| c. 1300 | Humanism, with its emphasis on the works of classical Antiquity, begins to attract disciples in Italy. |
| 1321 | Dante Alighieri completes his Divine Comedy. |
| 1341 | Petrarch crowned poet laureate at Rome. |
| c. 1350 | Giovanni Boccaccio meets Petrarch, and Boccaccio's collection of stories, The Decameron, is completed. |
| 1374 | Petrarch dies, having achieved widespread fame through his literary works. |
| Coluccio Salutati is called to Florence to become the town's first humanist-trained chancellor. In that capacity he will support the arts and humanities. | |
| 1375 | Boccaccio dies. |
| 1385 | Chaucer writes Troilus and Cryseide. |
| c. 1387 | Geoffrey Chaucer begins the Canterbury Tales in Middle English. In the coming century, the language will evolve into its early-modern form. |
| 1391 | Salutati completes his On the Labors of Hercules, a study of the poetry related to Hercules. One year later he will discover letters written by Cicero in a library at Verona. |
| 1396 | Manuel Chrysoloras begins to teach Greek... |
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