1500 in poetry

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

Works published

English

• Anonymous, publication year conjectural, A Gest of Robin Hood^[1]
• Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Guy of Warwick, related to the Anglo-Norman Gui de Warewic (c. 1232–1242)^[1]
• Anonymous, Sir Bevis of Hampton, translated c. 1300 from the Anglo-Norman Boeve de Haumtone c. 1200^[1]
• Anonymous, Sir Eglamour of Artois, written in the mid-14th century^[1]
• Geoffrey Chaucer, published anonymously, publication year conjectural, Mars and Venus, an amalgamation of the author's The Complaint of Mars and The Complaint of Venus^[1]
• John Lydgate, published anonymously, publication year conjectural, The Virtue of the Mass, also called the Interpretacio Misse^[1]

Other

• Stora rimkronikan ("The Great Rhymed Chronicle"), published about this year, Sweden^[2]
• Erasmus, De Laudibus Britanniae, a Latin ode in which the author calls John Skelton, appointed tutor to Prince Henry of England, "unum Britannicarum literarum lumen ac decus", and congratulates the prince for having so fine a teacher.^[3]
• Pierre Gringore, le Château d’Amours, France
• Singiraja, Maha Basavaraja Charitra, India

Births

Hayâlî (1500?–1557), Ottoman poet

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

• Erasmus Alberus, birth year uncertain (died 1553), German
• Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz (died 1580), Greek kabbalist and poet
• Antonius Arena, also known as "Antoine Arènes", (died 1544), French jurist and poet
• Eustorg Beaulieu (died 1552), French
• John Bellenden (died about 1548), English
• Bonaventure des Périers born about this year (died 1544), French author and poet
• George Cavendish, born this year, according to one source,^[4] but another states 1494 (died about 1561), English
• Hayâlî (خيالى) born (died 1557), Ottoman Empire
• Nikolaus Herman, birth year uncertain (died 1561), German
• Nicolaus Mameranus, (died c. 1567), Luxembourgian poet and historian
• Maurice Scève (died 1564), French
• Marcello Palingenio Stellato, born this year or 1503 (died 1543), Italian, Latin-language poet^[5]
• Ludovico Pasquali (died 1551), Italian author and poet
• Christoff Wirsung, birth year uncertain (died 1571), German
• Wu Cheng'en born 1500 or 1505 (died 1580), Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty
• Basilio Zanchi (died 1558/1559), Italian, Latin-language poet^[5]

Deaths

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

• Martial d'Auvergne (born 1440), French
• Bhalam (born c. 1426), Indian, Gujarati-language poet^[6]
• Serafino Ciminelli, also known as "Serafino Aquilano" (born 1466), Italian poet, singer, author and actor
• Robert Henryson, year uncertain, Scottish makar poet who flourished from about 1460 until this year
• Lodovico Lazzarelli (born 1450), Italian, Latin-language poet^[5]
• Gwerfyl Mechain (born c. 1460), Welsh poet, a woman^[7]
• Michele Marullo (born 1453), Italian, Latin-language poet^[5]
• Per Raff Lille died about this year (born c. 1450), Denmark^[2]
• Giovanni Mattia Tabarino (born c. 1420), Italian, Latin-language poet^[5]

See also

• Poetry
• Other events of the 15th century
• Other events of the 16th century
• 15th century in poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• Grands Rhétoriqueurs
• List of years in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes