1257 in poetry
# 1257 in poetry

## Works published

* Bostan, a book of poetry, is completed by Saadi

## Births

* Cecco d'Ascoli (died 1327), Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet

## Deaths

* Yuan Haowen (born 1190), Chinese Sanqu poetry writer
* Lanfranc Cigala died 1257 or 1258 (born unknown), Genoese nobleman, knight, judge, and man of letters
