Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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. John Skelton appointed Poet Laureate by Henry VIII of England
Works published
Great Britain Anonymous, Ars amatoria, translated from the Latin of Ovid's Art of Love John Lydgate, published anonymously, Troy Book, verse paraphrase of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae of 1287, in turn a Latin prose translation of the Roman de Troie (c. 1165) of Benoit de Sainte-Maure (see also The Life and Death of Hector 1614) John Skelton, published anonymously, celebrating the defeat of the Scots at Flodden
Other Mallanarya of Gubbi, Bhava Chintaratna, India Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Strozii poëtae pater et filius, his complete works together with works of his son; published by Aldus Manutius, Italy
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: December 23 – Sir Thomas Smith (died 1577), English scholar, diplomat and poet
Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January – Hans Folz (born c. 1437), German Meistersinger Henry Bradshaw (born c. 1450), English Robert Fabyan (birth year not known), English chronicler and sheriff Bartolomeo Fonzio (born c. 1445), Italian, Latin-language poet Naldo Naldi died about this year (born 1436), Italian, Latin-language poet
See also
Poetry 16th century in poetry 16th century in literature French Renaissance literature Grands Rhétoriqueurs Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature
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