Events

• Lanfranc Cigala
  Lanfranc Cigala
  Lanfranc Cigala was a Genoese nobleman, knight, judge, and man of letters of the mid thirteenth century. He remains one of the most famous Occitan troubadours of Lombardy. Thirty-two of his poems survive, dealing with Crusading, heresy, papal power, peace in Christendom, and loyalty in love...
  
   writes Quan vei far bon fag plazentier bemoaning the state of the Church
• Japanese
  Japanese poetry
  Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
  
   Retired Emperor Go-Saga
  Emperor Go-Saga
  Emperor Go-Saga was the 88th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession...
  
   orders a new imperial anthology of waka
  Waka (poetry)
  Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
  
   poems; compiled by Fujiwara no Tameie
  Fujiwara no Tameie
  was a Japanese poet and compiler of Imperial anthologies of poems.Tameie was the second son of poets Teika and Abutuni; and he was the central figure in a circle of Japanese poets after Jōkyū War in 1221. His three sons were Nijō Tameuji, Kyōgoku Tamenori and Reizei Tamesuke...
  
  , the new anthology, titled Shokugosen Wakashū 続後撰和歌集 ("Later Collection Continued"), would be finished three years later, in 1251
  1251 in poetry
  -Works published:* Fujiwara no Tameie, editor, Shokugosen Wakashū 続後撰和歌集 , an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, finished three years after Retired Emperor Go-Saga ordered it in 1248; consists of 20 volumes containing 1,368 poems-Deaths:* Ibn Sahl of Seville , Arabic language Moorish poet...