15th century in poetry

Events

• 1445 - Printing press developed in Europe.

Works

• Denmark^[1]
• Stora rimkronikan ("The Great Rhymed Chronicle"),
  Sweden^[1]
• 1402–1403 –
  Christine de Pisan, Le Livre du chemin de long estude, describing a trial of the faults of this world in the "Court of Reason"^[2]
• 1403 –
  Christine de Pisan, La Mutacion de Fortune ("The Changes of Fortune")^[2]
• c.1434 – John Lydgate, The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr
• c.1470–1485 –
  Il Cantilena, oldest known Maltese
  text
• c.1480s – Robert Henryson, cycle The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian in Scotland
• 1473–1480 – Maladhar Basu, ''Sri Krishna Vijaya (শ্রীকৃষ্ণবিজয়, "Triumph of Lord Krishna"), Bengal

Births and deaths

Mexico

• Axayacatl (1449-1481), huey tlatoani (supreme leader or emperor) of Tenochtitlan and poet^{[3]: 133–153}
• Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin (mid 15th-early 16th centuries) wise man, poet, white eagle from Tecamachalco^{[3]: 197–209}
• Cacamatzin (1483-1520), tlatoani of Texcoco and poet^{[3]: 109–125}
• Chichicuepon (15th century) poet from Chalco (altépetl)^{[3]: 225–237}
• Cuacuauhtzin (1410-1443), tlatoani (ruler) of Tepechpan wrote a poem about his betrayal by Nezahualcoyotl.^{[3]: 77–87}
• Macuilxochitzin (c. 1435-?), daughter of Tlacaelel^{[3]: 155–169}
• Texcoco (altepetl), poet, and architect^[3]
  ^: 39–75
• Tecayehuatzin of Huexotzinco (second half of 15th to early 16th century), poet and philosopher (Huexotzinco was a semi-independent state, alternately loyal to the Aztec Empire or to Tlaxcala.)^{[3]: 183–195}
• Temilotzin (end of 15th century-1525), born in Tlatelolco (altepetl) and Tlatoani of Tzilacatlan^{[3]: 171–179}
• Tochihuitzin coyolchiuhqui, (late 14th-mid 15th centuries) Tlatoani and poet from Teotlatzinco, son of Itzcoatl^{[3]: 127–131}
• Xicotencatl I (1425-1522) tlatoani of Tizatlan (Tlaxcala)^{[3]: 211–221}

Europe

• Danish^[1]
• Swedish^[1]
• 1463), French
• 1472), Latin from Hungary

• Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai
• Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, poet and sometime mendicant flute player who influenced Japanese art and literature with an infusion of Zen attitudes and ideals; one of the creators of the formal Japanese tea ceremony; well-known to Japanese children through various stories and the subject of a popular Japanese children's television program; made a character in anime
  fiction
• 1459), considered by some the last great poet in the courtly waka tradition; his disciples were important in the development of renga, which led to haiku
• Zen monk who studied waka and renga
  poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
• 1465–1553), renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa
  ; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489

• 1492
  )
• 1441–1501
  )

• Gujarati-language poet^[4]
• 1408 CE) refers to (possibly more than one) medieval Indian Bengali
  -language poet
• Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India
• Kashmiri
  -language poet
• Zainuddin (fl. 1470s), Bengali-language poet

See also

• 15th century in literature
• Macronic poetry

Decades and years

Notes