Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events edit
- Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino ("The [Golden] Ass")
Works published edit
- Teofilo Folengo, writing under the pen name "Merlin Cocaio", Opus Maccaronicum, collection of satiric poems,[1] including Baldo; a blend of Latin with various Italian dialects in hexameter verse; many subsequent editions
- Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, written in 1184, a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books; "edito princeps" (first printed edition) published this year by Josse Badius Ascensius[2]
- Francysk Skaryna, The Psalter, Old Belarusian language, printed August 6 by Skaryna at his press in Prague, one of the first book printers in Eastern Europe
- John Skelton, The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng, comic poem[1] about tavern life; Great Britain[3]
Births edit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans (died 1582), French humanist poet
- Bargeo (died 1596), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Approximate date
- Robert Crowley (died 1588), English stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (died 1547), English aristocrat and poet
Deaths edit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- August – Andrea Ammonio (born 1478), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Gerolamo Bologni (born 1454), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Cornelio Paolo Amalteo (born c. 1460), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Girolamo Amaseo (born 1467), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Approximate date – Fausto Andrelino (born c. 1462), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ a b Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
- ^ Review[dead link] of Architrenius by Johannes de Hauvilla, translation by Walter Weatherbee, The Review of English Studies 1997 XLVIII(189), p 79, retrieved from the "Oxford Journals" website on July 26, 2009. Archived 2009-07-29.
- ^ Trager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
- ^ a b c d e f Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.