Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish

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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Events

1452:

• Niccolò Perotti
  Niccolò Perotti
  Niccolò Perotti, also Perotto or Nicolaus Perottus was an Italian humanist and author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars.-Biography:...
  
   made Poet Laureate
  Poet Laureate
  A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
  
   in Bologna
  Bologna
  Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
  
   by the Emperor Frederick III
  Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
  Frederick the Peaceful KG was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 1452...
  
  

Works published

1450:

• Santillana
  Santillana
  Santillana may refer to:*Santillana del Mar, a town in Spain*Carlos Alonso González, nicknamed Santillana, a Spanish footballer*Grupo Santillana, a Spanish publisher owned by PRISA...
  
  , Bias contra Fortuna, published about this year; Spain
  Spanish poetry
  Spanish 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....
  
  
• Vetteve, Guttilaya, narrative poem by a Sinhalese monk

1454:

• Padmanabhan, Kanhadade Prabandha, Indian
  Indian poetry
  Indian 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...
  
  , Rajasthani-language

1456:

• Francois Villon
  François Villon
  François Villon was a French poet, thief, and vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade des Pendus, written while in prison...
  
  , Le Petit Testament

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

1450:

• August 18 – Marko Marulić
  Marko Marulic
  Marko Marulić |Split]], 18 August 1450 – Split, 5 January 1524) was a Croatian national poet and Christian humanist, known as the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age and the father of the Croatian Renaissance. He signed his works as Marko Marulić Splićanin , Marko Pečenić, Marcus Marulus ...
  
   (died 1524
  1524 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Pietro Bembo, , the author's most influential work, a prose treatise on writing poetry in Italian; discussed verse composition in detail, including rhyme, stress, the sounds of words,...
  
  ), Croatian poet, philosopher and Christian humanist, known as "the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age" and the "father of the Croatian Renaissance"; He signed his works as "Marko Marulić Splićanin" ("Marko Marulić of Split"), "Marko Pečenić", "Marcus Marulus Spalatensis", or "Dalmata"
• Hieronymus Balbus
  Hieronymus Balbus
  Hieronymus Balbus was a Renaissance Humanist, poet, diplomat, and Bishop of Gurk in Carinthia, b. about 1450 in Venice; d. there, probably 1535....
  
  , also called "Girolamo Balbi" and "Accellini", born about this year (died c. 1530
  1530 in poetry
  Nationality 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...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Renaissance humanist, Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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, diplomat, and bishop Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Henry Bradshaw
  Henry Bradshaw (poet)
  Henry Bradshaw was an English poet born in Chester. In his boyhood he was received into the Benedictine monastery of Saint Werburgh, and after studying with other novices of his order at Gloucester College, Oxford, he returned to his monastery at Chester.He wrote a Latin treatise De antiquitate et...
  
   (died 1513
  1513 in poetry
  Nationality 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.*...
  
  ), English
  English poetry
  The 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...
  
  
• Benedetto Cariteo (died 1514
  1514 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Clément Marot presents Francis I of France his Judgment of Minos; appointed facteur de la reine to Queen Claude-Works published:* Francesco Maria Molzo, The Aeneid translation from the Latin of...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  
• Gian Giacomo della Croce born about this year (died sometime after 1502
  1502 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Stephen Hawes appointed to Valet de chambre under Henry VII of England* Poet Laureate John Skelton imprisoned-Italy:...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Lodovico Lazzarelli
  Lodovico Lazzarelli
  Ludovico Lazzarelli was an Italian poet, philosopher, courtier and alleged magician and diviner of the early Renaissance....
  
   (died 1500
  1500 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Per Raff Lille born about this year (died c. 1500
  1500 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
  
  ), Denmark
• Jean Marot
  Jean Marot
  Jean Marot was a French poet and the father of French Renaissance poet Clément Marot. He is often grouped with the "Grands Rhétoriqueurs"....
  
   born about this year (born c. 1526
  1526 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Geoffrey Chaucer, posthumously published:** The Canterbury Tales, the Pynson edition...
  
  ), French
  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:...
  
   poet and father of poet Clément Marot
  Clément Marot
  Clément Marot was a French poet of the Renaissance period.-Youth:Marot was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of 1496-1497. His father, Jean Marot , whose more correct name appears to have been des Mares, Marais or Marets, was a Norman from the Caen...
  
  
• Faustino Perisauli born about this year (died 1523
  1523 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Alexander Barclay, The Mirror of Good Manners, publication year uncertain, translated from Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus, in English and Latin; London: Richard Pynson* Hans Sachs,...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Panfilo Sasso born about this year (died 1527
  1527 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Skelton, , publication year uncertain; also contains "Upon a Dead Man's Head" and "Womanhood, Wanton ye want"...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Cornelio Vitelli born about this year (died c. 1525
  1525 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, King Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in the early 14th century; freely adapted from Thomas of Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie of the 12th century* Pietro Bembo,...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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

1452

• Francesco Negri (humanist) (died 1524
  1524 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Pietro Bembo, , the author's most influential work, a prose treatise on writing poetry in Italian; discussed verse composition in detail, including rhyme, stress, the sounds of words,...
  
   or sometime later), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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

1453:

• Ermolao Barbaro
  Ermolao Barbaro
  Ermolao or Hermolao Barbaro, also Hermolaus Barbarus , was an Italian Renaissance scholar.-Education:Ermolao Barbaro was born in Venice, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro, and the grandson of Francesco Barbaro...
  
  , sources differ on his death year, with some simply stating 1493  and others stating 1493 year and 1495 are each possible (1493),(born 1453), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Filippo Beroaldo (died 1505
  1505 in poetry
  Nationality 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...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Michele Marullo, also known as "Michael Marullus" (died 1500
  1500 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
  
  , or about that year), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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

1454:

• Gerolamo Bologni (died 1517
  1517 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Teofilo Folengo, writing under the pen name "Merlin Cocaio", Opus Maccaronicum, collection of satiric poems, including Baldo; a blend of Latin with various Italian dialects in hexameter...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from this year to 1456, Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Angelo Poliziano, also known as "Politan" and "Angelo Ambrogini" (died 1494), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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 and humanist

1455:

• Probo de Marianis (died 1499), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Giovanni Armonio Marso, born about this year (death year not known), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Johannes Reuchlin (died 1522
  1522 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Biernat of Lublin, Zywot Ezopa , published about this year, Poland...
  
  ), German

1456:

• Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli (died 1524
  1524 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Pietro Bembo, , the author's most influential work, a prose treatise on writing poetry in Italian; discussed verse composition in detail, including rhyme, stress, the sounds of words,...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from 1454 to this year, Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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

1457:

• Sebastian Brant
  Sebastian Brant
  Sebastian Brant was an Alsatian humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff .-Biography:...
  
   born this year or in 1458 (died 1521
  1521 in poetry
  * Alexander Barclay, The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas, the author's "Fourth Eclog" * Henry Bradshaw, The Life of St...
  
  ), German
• Šiško Menčetić
  Šiško Mencetic
  Šišmundo Menčetić Vlahović, , or Sigismondo Menze was a poet from the Republic of Ragusa, chiefly creating his opus in the 15th century.-Biography:...
  
   (died 1527
  1527 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Skelton, , publication year uncertain; also contains "Upon a Dead Man's Head" and "Womanhood, Wanton ye want"...
  
  ), Croatian poet and Ragusan
  Republic of Ragusa
  The Republic of Ragusa or Republic of Dubrovnik was a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia , that existed from 1358 to 1808...
  
   nobleman
• Jacopo Sannazaro
  Jacopo Sannazaro
  Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic Arcadia, a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of...
  
  , also known as "Iacopo Sannazaro" (died 1530
  1530 in poetry
  Nationality 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...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
   poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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...
  
  

1458:

• Pietro Bonomo
  Pietro Bonomo
  Pietro Bonomo was an Italian humanist and diplomat, who became bishop of Trieste in 1502 and archbishop of Vienna briefly in 1522....
  
  , also known as "Petrus" (died 1546
  1546 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Luigi Alamanni, La Coltivazione, didactic poem written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics, Italian writer published in Paris, France* Ludovico Ariosto, Le Rime de M...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , humanist, diplomat, bishop of Trieste and Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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
• Sebastian Brant
  Sebastian Brant
  Sebastian Brant was an Alsatian humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff .-Biography:...
  
   born this year or in 1457 (died 1521
  1521 in poetry
  * Alexander Barclay, The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas, the author's "Fourth Eclog" * Henry Bradshaw, The Life of St...
  
  ), German
• Giorgio Anselmo, born this year or sometime earlier (died 1528
  1528 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, , publication year uncertain, Arthurian romance adapted from two episodes in the First continuation of Chretien de Troyes's Percival, ou le Conte del Graal* William Barlowe and...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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; grandson of another Giogrio Anselmo, an Italian mathematician and astronomer (died 1440)
• Jacopo Sannazaro
  Jacopo Sannazaro
  Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic Arcadia, a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of...
  
    (died 1530
  1530 in poetry
  Nationality 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...
  
  ), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
   poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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...
  
  

1459:

• February 1 – Conrad Celtis (died 1508
  1508 in poetry
  Nationality 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...
  
  ), German and Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

1450:

• Olivier Basselin
  Olivier Basselin
  Olivier Basselin , French poet, was born in the Val-de-Vire in Normandy about the end of the 14th century.He was by occupation a fuller, and tradition still points out the site of his mill...
  
   (born 1400), French poet

1451:

• John Lydgate
  John Lydgate
  John Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, Suffolk, England.Lydgate is at once a greater and a lesser poet than John Gower. He is a greater poet because of his greater range and force; he has a much more powerful machine at his command. The sheer bulk of Lydgate's poetic output is...
  
   (born 1370), English monk and poet
• Michault Taillevent died about this year (born c. 1395), French
  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:...
  
  

1456:

• Gilbert Hay, or perhaps "Sir Gilbert the Hay", who may have been a different person; last mentioned this year (born c. 1403), Scottish poet and translator
• Juan de Mena
  Juan de Mena
  Juan de Mena was one of the most significant Spanish poets of the fifteenth century. He was highly regarded at the court of Juan II de Castilla, who appointed him veinticuatro of Córdoba, secretario de cartas latinas and cronista real...
  
   (born 1411), Spanish poet appointed veinticuatro (one of twenty-four aldermen) of Córdoba, secretario de cartas latinas (secretary of Latin letters) and cronista real (royal chronicler)

1457:

• Basinio da Parma (born 1425–1457), Italian
  Italian 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....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The 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

1458:

• Inigo Lopez de Mendoza (born 1398), Spanish
  Spanish poetry
  Spanish 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....
  
  

1459:

• March 3 – Ausiàs March
  Ausiàs March
  Ausiàs March was a Valencian poet who was born in Gandia towards the end of the 14th century. He was the son of Pere March, nephew of Jaume March II, and cousin of Arnau March....
  
   (born 1397), Spanish
  Spanish poetry
  Spanish 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....
  
  , Catalan poet
• Shōtetsu
  Shotetsu
  Shōtetsu was a Japanese poet during the Muromachi period, and is considered to have been the last poet in the courtly waka tradition ; a number of his disciples were important in the development of the renga art form, which led to the haiku....
  
   (born 1381), Japanese Waka
  Waka (poetry)
  Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
  
   poet during the medieval period

See also

• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry 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 poetry
  15th 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 literature
  15th century in literature
  See 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....