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

Events

Works published

• Biernat of Lublin, Zywot Ezopa ("The Life of Aesop"), published about this year, Poland^[1]
• Robert Copland, Ipomadon, publication year uncertain; derived from the Anglo-Norman Ipomedon (c. 1190) of Hue de Rotelande^[2]
• Thomas Murner, Of the Great Lutheran Fool, a verse satire against Martin Luther; the "Great Lutheran fool" is a personification of all those who were misled by Lutheranism; the author's most famous work; Germany^[3]

Births

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

• Approximate date
  • Joachim du Bellay (died 1560), French poet
  • Siôn Tudur (died 1602), Welsh language poet

Deaths

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

• June 30 – Johann Reuchlin (born 1455), German humanist scholar and poet
• September – Gavin Douglas (born c. 1474), Scottish poet and bishop