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   In February 2021 Zamzar expanded their tool and announced a new file compression service. [10] The compressor is visually similar to the conversion tool with a drag and drop download feature. As with the converter, users have the option to subscribe for a paid plan if they wish to compress multiple or larger files than the free service permits [11]

4. Boece (Chaucer) - Wikipedia

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   Chaucer worked, in part, from a translation of the Consolation into French by Jean de Meun but is clear he also worked from a Latin version, correcting some of the liberties de Meun takes with the text. The Latin source was probably a corrupt version of Boethius' original, which explains some of Chaucer's own misinterpretations of the work.

5. Geoffrey Chaucer - Wikipedia

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   Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]

6. Rhyme royal - Wikipedia

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   Chaucer first used the rhyme royal stanza in his long poems Troilus and Criseyde and the Parlement of Foules, written in the later fourteenth century.He also used it for four of the Canterbury Tales: the Man of Law's Tale, the Prioress' Tale, the Clerk's Tale, and the Second Nun's Tale, and in a number of shorter lyrics.

7. Troilus and Criseyde - Wikipedia

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   Geoffrey Chaucer reciting before nobles. Troilus and Criseyde (/ ˈ t r ɔɪ l ə s ... k r ɪ ˈ s eɪ d ə /) is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy.

8. The Tale of Melibee - Wikipedia

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   Renaud's work itself is a very loose translation of Liber consolationis et consilii by Albertanus of Brescia. Chaucer used Brescia's Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi (Book of Speaking and Keeping Silent) as a source for the Manciple's Tale, and his De amore dei (On the Love of God) for the Merchant's Tale.

9. A Treatise on the Astrolabe - Wikipedia

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   Chaucer opens with the words "Lyte Lowys my sone". [16] [f] In the past a question arose whether the Lowys was Chaucer's son or some other child he was in close contact with. Kittredge suggested that it could be Lewis Clifford, a son of a friend and possible a godson of Chaucer's.