1440s in poetry

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

Events

• 1442 – Enea Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, arrives at the court of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, in Vienna, who names him imperial poet.
• 1445 – Printing press developed in Europe

Works published

1445:

• Cancionero de Baena, the first collection of Castilian lyrics, Spain^[1]

1449:

• Amoryus and Cleopes, poem by John Metham, English adaptation of the Pyramus and Thisbe narrative from Ovid‘s Metamorphoses

Births

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

1440:

• Tuscan language
• Martial d'Auvergne (died 1500), French
• German
• Scottish makar
  (poet)
• Kabir (died 1518), mystic poet and saint of India
• 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• 1479
  ), Spanish poet
• 1484), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• Ramayan
  ; a woman
• Ludovico Pontico born about this year (died 1520), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• Giorgio Sisgoreo born about this year (died c. 1510), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• Francesco Uberti (humanist) (died 1518), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]

1441:

• Turkish^[3]
  poet and scholar

• Amerigo Corsini (died 1501), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• Pietro Antonio Piatti born about this year (died after 1508), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]

1443:

• Matteo Canale (died 1503), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]

1444:

• Pandolfo Collenuccio (died 1504), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]

1445:

• Cantalicio (died 1515), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• Bartolomeo Fonzio born about this year (died 1513), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]

1446:

• 1478), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• 1484), Italian
  noblewoman and writer
• Robert Wydow (died 1505), English poet, church musician, and religious figure

1447:

• Baptista Mantuanus, also known as "Battista Mantovano" and "Johannes Baptista Spagnolo" (died 1516), Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin-language poet

1448:

• Johannes von Soest (died 1506), German composer, theorist and poet

1449:

• 1499), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• 1489), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• Aldo Manuzio (died 1515), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]

• 1388), Vietnamese Confucian scholar, poet, politician
  and tactician

• Swedish^[1]

• 1375), Catalan Spanish translator of the Divine Comedy^[4]

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

Notes