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

Events

Works published

• William Dunbar, The Tua Maritt Wemen and the Wedo, publication year uncertain; also contains the author's "Lament for the Makaris", "Kynd Kittok", and "The Testament of Mr. Andro. Kennedy"; Great Britain^[1]
• The Jousts of May and June, anonymously published, publication year uncertain; Great Britain^[2]
• Jean Lemaire de Belges, Les Chansons de Namur, written in support of a popular revolt;^[3] Belgian Waloon poet writing in French
• Guntherus Ligurinis, Ligurinus sive de gestis Frederici I libri X, a description of the battles Frederick Barbarossa fought with Milan whom the poet calls "Ligures", written by a 12th-century poet, found in a monastery by C. Celtis, who gave it to K. Peutinger, published by Chunrades Peutinger; republished in 1531 by J. Spiegel in Strasbourg, and in 1561 by Otto von Freising in Basel, Switzerland^[4]
• Baptista Mantuanus, an Italian, Latin-language poet:
  • Parthenese, one of seven poems the author wrote with the same name, this one on St. Caecilia; Milan^[5]
  • Mantuan Georgius, a poem on St. George, Milan^[5]
  • Obiurgatio cum exortatione ad capienda arma contra infideles ad Potentatos Christianos, Milan^[5]
• Jean Marot, Le Voyage de Gênes^[6]

Births

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

• June 6 – Annibale Caro (died 1566), Italian
• October 7 – Guillaume Guéroult born about this year (died 1569), French editor, translator and poet
• Also:
  • Chang Chi-Hsiang (died 1587), Chinese poetry anthologist
  • Girolamo Amalteo of Oderzo (died in 1574), Italian poet who wrote in Latin

Deaths

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

• August 23 – Jean Molinet (born 1435), French poet, chronicler, and composer
• Petrus Crinitus, also known as "Pietro Crinito" (born 1474), Florentine Italian humanist scholar and poet who wrote verses in Latin^[7]