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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Works published
1445- Cancionero de Baena, the first collection of Castilian lyrics, SpainSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:1440:
- Martial d'Auvergne (died 15001500 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:... - Hans FolzHans FolzHans Folz was a German author of the late medieval or early Renaissance period.Folz was born in Worms. He was made a citizen of the city of Nuremberg, Germany in 1459 and master barber of the city in 1486. Folz was a reformer of the meistersangs, adding 27 new tones to those that had been...
born sometime from 1435 to this year (died 15131513 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Gavin Douglas completed the Eneados, a complete Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid and the first full and faithful translation into any Germanic language of a major poem from classical antiquity.*...
), German - Blind HarryBlind HarryBlind Harry , also known as Harry, Hary or Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the author of The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace...
, also known as "Henry the Minstrel", born about this year (died 1492), Scottish makarMakarA makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as royal court poet, although the term can be more generally applied. The word functions in a manner similar to the Greek term which means both maker and poet...
(poet) - KabirKabirKabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement...
(died 15181518 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Baptista Mantuanus' Eclogues prescribed for use in St Paul's School .-Great Britain:...
), mystic poet and saint of India - Lorenzo Lippi (of Cole) (died 1485), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - Jorge ManriqueJorge ManriqueJorge Manrique was a major Spanish poet, whose main work, the Coplas a la muerte de su padre , is still read today...
(died 1479), Spanish poet - Paolo Marsi (died 1484), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - MollaMolla (poetess)Atukuri Molla was a famous Telugu poetess who authored the Telugu-language Ramayana. She was popularly known as Molla or Mollamamba.-Biography:...
, also known as "Mollamamba", both popular names of Atukuri Molla (died 15301530 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
), IndianIndian poetryIndian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
poet who wrote Telugu Ramayan; a woman - Ludovico Pontico born about this year (died 15201520 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Alexander the Great...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - Giorgio Sisgoreo born about this year (died c. 15101510 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Merlin, based on the second of two versions of the Middle English romance Arthur and Merlin, itself derived ultimately from the Old French prose Merlin, part of the Arthurian...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - Francesco Uberti (humanist) (died 15181518 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Baptista Mantuanus' Eclogues prescribed for use in St Paul's School .-Great Britain:...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet
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- Mir Ali Shir Nava'iMir Ali Shir Nava'i' was a Central Asian Turkic politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet of Uyghur origin who was born and lived in Herat. He is generally known by his pen name Navā'ī...
(died 15011501 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet, writes , approximately this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).-Events:* Gavin...
), Persian or Turkish poet and scholar
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- Amerigo Corsini (died 15011501 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet, writes , approximately this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).-Events:* Gavin...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - Pietro Antonio Piatti born about this year (died after 15081508 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Scotland:* Anonymous, Golagros and Gawain, a Middle Scots romance written in the late 15th century in alliterative metre; based on two episodes from the First Continuation of Chretien de Troyes' Perceval, ou...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet
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- Matteo Canale (died 15031503 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto begins writing Orlando Furioso -Works published:* Anonymous, Sir Tryamour, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th century* William...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet
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- Pandolfo Collenuccio (died 15041504 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, Generides, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th century; Great Britain...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet
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- Cantalicio (died 15151515 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Alexander Barclay, Saint George, translated from Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus; Great Britain...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - Bartolomeo Fonzio born about this year (died 15131513 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Gavin Douglas completed the Eneados, a complete Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid and the first full and faithful translation into any Germanic language of a major poem from classical antiquity.*...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet
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- Domizio Calderini (died 1478), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - Robert WydowRobert WydowRobert Wydow was an English poet, church musician, and religious figure.Born in Thaxted, Essex, he was initially educated by his stepfather, who was the local schoolmaster. By 1455 or 1456, he was studying music and Latin in the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, where he was a chorister...
(died 15051505 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Adam bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly, an outlaw ballad, reprinted numerous times through the mid-17th century * Anonymous, Octavian, publication...
, EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet, church musician, and religious figure
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- Baptista MantuanusBaptista MantuanusBaptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus was an Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet.-Biography:Mantuan was born of a Spanish family that had settled in Mantua, the northern Italian city that gave him his most commonly used English name...
, also known as "Battista Mantovano" and "Johannes Baptista Spagnolo" (died 15161516 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, earliest published version , Italy...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
Carmelite reformer, humanist and LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
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- Johannes von SoestJohannes von SoestJohannes Steinwert von Soest was a German composer, theorist and poet. Most biographical details about his life survive in Soest's rhymed autobiography. He was born in Unna and brought up in the nearby town of Soest. As a child, he sang at St. Patroclus Cathedral in Soest...
(died 15061506 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Publio Fausto Andrelini, Eclogues, full of proverbial expressions* William Dunbar, , Scotland-Births:...
), German composer, theorist and poet
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- Quinto Emiliano Cimbriaco born about this year (died 1499), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - Antonio Geraldini born about this year (died 1489), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - Aldo Manuzio (died 15151515 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Alexander Barclay, Saint George, translated from Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus; Great Britain...
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet
Deaths
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- Cuacuauhtzin (born 1410), Aztec lord and poet in the Pre-ColumbianPre-ColumbianThe pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...
nahua world - Nund Reshi (born 1377), IndianIndian poetryIndian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
, Kashmiri-language poet
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- Nguyễn Trãi (born 1388), VietnameseVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
ConfucianConfucianismConfucianism is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius . Confucianism originated as an "ethical-sociopolitical teaching" during the Spring and Autumn Period, but later developed metaphysical and cosmological elements in the Han...
scholar, poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, politicianPoliticianA politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
and tactician
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- Tomas af Strangnas, Swedish
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- Andreu Febrer died about this year (born c. 1375), Catalan SpanishSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
translator of the Divine Comedy
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- VidyapatiVidyapatiVidyapati Thakur , also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil was a Maithili poet and a Sanskrit writer. He was born in the village of Bishphi in Madhubani district of Bihar state, India. He was son of Ganapati...
, also known as Vidyapati Thakur and called Maithil Kavi Kokil "the poet cuckoo of Maithili", died about this year (born c. 1352), IndianIndian poetryIndian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
, Maithili-language poet and Sanskrit writer
See also
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- 15th century in poetry15th century in poetry-Works:* Per Raff Lille, Mariaviser , Denmark* Stora rimkronikan , Sweden* 1402–1403 – Christine de Pisan, Le Livre du chemin de long estude, describing a trial of the faults of this world in the "Court of Reason"* 1403 – Christine de Pisan, La Mutacion de Fortune -Europe:* Per Raff...
- 15th century in literature15th century in literatureSee also: 15th century in poetry, 14th century in literature, other events of the 15th century, 16th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:* 1403 - The Yongle Encyclopedia is commissioned in China....