[PHILIPPE DE VITRY]. This bishop of Meaux, 1291-1361, is sometimes identified as the author of the Ovide Moralisé, written during the first years of the fourteenth century. The other author to whom the work is attributed is Chrétien Legouais. Chaucer mentions neither the authors nor the work, but it is clear that he knew the Ovide Moralisé, which tells the stories found in Ovid's Metamorphoses, with allegorical and Christian interpretations for them. Ceres, for example, represents the Church seeking the souls of the faithful. [Ovide]