1450s in poetry
# 1450s in poetry

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## Events

1450:

* Fairfax Manuscript thought to have been completed, for John Stanley of Hooton, Cheshire ("Anno 1450" inscribed on folio 1r).

1451:

* August 1 – A manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy is sold in London

1452:

* Niccolò Perotti made Poet Laureate in Bologna by Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

## Works published

1450:

* Santillana, Bias contra Fortuna, published about this year; Spain
* Vetteve, Guttilaya, narrative poem by a Sinhalese monk

1454:

* Padmanabhan, Kanhadade Prabandha, Indian, Rajasthani-language

1456:

* François Villon, Le Petit Testament

## 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
* Henry Bradshaw (died 1513), English
* Benedetto Cariteo (died 1514), Italian
* Gian Giacomo della Croce born about this year (died sometime after 1502), Italian, Latin-language poet
* Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500), Italian, Latin-language poet
* Per Raff Lille born about this year (died c. 1500), Denmark
* 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
* 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
* Cornelio Vitelli born about this year (died c. 1525), Italian, Latin-language poet

1452

* Francesco Negri (humanist) (died 1524 or sometime later), Italian, Latin-language poet

1453:

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

1454:

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

1455:

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

1456:

* Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli (died 1524), Italian, Latin-language poet
* Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from 1454 to this year, Italian, Latin-language poet

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" (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
* 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)
* 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
* Badr Shirvani (born 1387), Persian 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

1458:

* Inigo Lopez de Mendoza (born 1398), Spanish

1459:

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