1450s in poetry

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Events

1452:

• Niccolò Perotti made Poet Laureate in Bologna by the Emperor Frederick III

Works published

1450:

• Santillana, Bias contra Fortuna, published about this year; Spain^[1]
• Vetteve, Guttilaya, narrative poem by a Sinhalese monk^[2]

1454:

• Padmanabhan, Kanhadade Prabandha, Indian, Rajasthani-language^[2]

1456:

• François Villon, Le Petit Testament^[2]

Births

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

1450:

• August 18 – Marko Marulić (died 1524), 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, also called "Girolamo Balbi" and "Accellini", born about this year (died c. 1530), Italian, Renaissance humanist, Latin-language poet, diplomat, and bishop Latin-language poet^[3]
• Henry Bradshaw (died 1513), English
• Benedetto Cariteo (died 1514), Italian^[4]
• Gian Giacomo della Croce born about this year (died sometime after 1502), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Per Raff Lille born about this year (died c. 1500), Denmark^[1]
• Jean Marot born about this year (born c. 1526), French poet and father of poet Clément Marot
• Faustino Perisauli born about this year (died 1523), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Pothana (died 1510), Telugu poet best known for his translation of the Bhagavata Purana from Sanskrit to Telugu
• Panfilo Sasso born about this year (died 1527), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Cornelio Vitelli born about this year (died c. 1525), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]

1452

• Francesco Negri (humanist) (died 1524 or sometime later), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]

1453:

• Ermolao Barbaro, sources differ on his death year, with some simply stating 1493 ^[3] and others stating 1493 year and 1495 are each possible^[5] (1493),(born 1453), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Filippo Beroaldo (died 1505), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Michele Marullo, also known as "Michael Marullus"^[1] (died 1500,^[3] or about that year^[1]), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]

1454:

• Gerolamo Bologni (died 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from this year to 1456, Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Angelo Poliziano, also known as "Politan" and "Angelo Ambrogini"^[2] (died 1494), Italian, Latin-language poet and humanist^[2][3]

1455:

• Probo de Marianis (died 1499), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Giovanni Armonio Marso, born about this year (death year not known), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Johannes Reuchlin (died 1522), German

1456:

• Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli (died 1524), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
• Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from 1454 to this year, Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]

1457:

• Sebastian Brant born this year or in 1458 (died 1521), German
• Šiško Menčetić (died 1527), Croatian poet and Ragusan nobleman
• Jacopo Sannazaro, also known as "Iacopo Sannazaro"^[3] (died 1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin

1458:

• Pietro Bonomo, also known as "Petrus" (died 1546), Italian, humanist, diplomat, bishop of Trieste and Latin-language poet^[3]
• Sebastian Brant born this year or in 1457 (died 1521), German
• Giorgio Anselmo, born this year or sometime earlier (died 1528), Italian, Latin-language poet; grandson of another Giogrio Anselmo, an Italian mathematician and astronomer (died 1440)^[3]
• Jacopo Sannazaro (died 1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin

1459:

• February 1 – Conrad Celtis (died 1508), German and Latin-language poet

Deaths

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

1450:

• Olivier Basselin (born 1400), French poet

1451:

• John Lydgate (born 1370), English monk and poet
• Michault Taillevent died about this year (born c. 1395), French

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 (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, Latin-language poet^[3]

1458:

• Inigo Lopez de Mendoza (born 1398), Spanish^[2]

1459:

• March 3 – Ausiàs March (born 1397), Spanish, Catalan poet
• Shōtetsu (born 1381), Japanese Waka poet during the medieval period

See also

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

Notes