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1490s in poetry
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Works published edit
1491:
- Immanuel of Rome, Mahberot Imanu'el, published in Brescia, Italy, among the first books in Hebrew printed in Italy[1]
1492:
- Savonarola, Apologeticus De Ratione Poeticae Artis, criticism; Italy[2]
- Jorge Manrique, Coplas de Manrique por la muerte de su padre ("Couplets on the Death of His Father"[3] or "Stanzas for the Death of His Father"[4]), Spanish lyric poem
1493:
- Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, Mizan al-Awzan ("Scales of Poetic Meters"), Turkish poems[4]
1494:
- John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, 36,000-line poem[4] translated c. 1431–1438 from the De casibus illustrium virorum of Boccaccio (see also Lydgate's Proverbs 1510), posthumously published[5]
- Shin Maha Rahtathara, Bhuridat Zatpaung Pyo, Burmese poem[4]
- Sebastian Brant, Das Narrenschiff ("The Ship of Fools"), much-translated satire, year of publication disputed, German[4]
1495:
- Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato ("Orlando in Love"), epic poem, Italy
1496:
- Juan del Encina, Cancionero, one-act Spanish verse drama and poetry[4]
- Gyssaub Vaeze Kashefi, Aklake Mohseni ("Morals of the Beneficent"), prose and verse, Persian[4]
- Shin Maha Rahtathara, Tada uti Mawgun, Burmese poetry collection[4]
1497:
- John Lydgate, published anonymously, The Siege of Thebes, publication year uncertain, adapted c. 1421–1422 from an unknown French prose romance, posthumously published[5]
- Jacob Locher, Das Narrenschiff, a translation, sometimes loose, into Latin from the original German of Das Narrenschiff ("The Ship of Fools") by Sebastian Brant[6]
- Paul Riviere, a translation into French of Das Narrenschiff ("The Ship of Fools") by Sebastian Brant, from the original German
1498:
- Hinrek van Alkmaar, Reinke de Vos ("Reynard the Fox"), animal epic poem, Netherlands
- Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, Char Divan ("Four Divans"), lyric poems Chagatai Turkish[4]
1499:
- John Skelton, published anonymously, The Bouge of Court, publication year uncertain, written in 1488; a satirical dream-allegory about court life[5]
- Gilber Hay (or perhaps "Gilbert the Hay", who may have been a different person) publishes The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour, part of The Buik of Alexander romance stories
- Pierre Gringore, Chasteau de Labour, printed by Antoine Vérard, France
Births edit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted:
1490:
- April – Vittoria Colonna (died 1547), Italian
- Girolamo Angeriano, also known as "Hieronymus Angerianus" born sometime between about 1470 and about 1490 (died 1535), Italian, Latin-language poet;[7] sources differ on his birth year, with some stating 1470,[7][8] others giving "c. 1480"[9][10] and another c. 1490 [11]
- Juan Boscan, original Catalan name: "Joan Boscà Almogàver", born about this year (died 1542), Catalan poet who wrote in Spanish
- Cristobal de Castillejo born about this year (died 1550), Spanish
- Sir David Lindsay (died c. 1555), Scottish
- Jean Salmon Macrin (died 1557), French, Latin-language poet[12]
- Francesco Pittiani, born about this year (died 1552), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Giuseppe Sporeni, born about this year (died after 1562), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
1491:
- November 8 – Teofilo Folengo, (died 1544), Italian poet who wrote in Italian, Latin[7] and a Macaronic style mixing the two
- Bach Van, also known as "Nguyen Bin Khiem", Vietnamese poet[4]
- Latifî, also known as Kastamonulu Latifî Çelebi, Ottoman poet and bibliographer
- Mellin de Saint-Gelais (died 1558), French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
1492:
- Pietro Aretino (died 1556), Italian poet and playwright[4]
- Antoine Héroët, poète et clerc français, mort vers 1567.
- Marguerite de Navarre, also known as "Marguerite of Angoulême" and "Margaret of Navarre" (died 1549), French queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre; patron of humanists and reformers, author, playwright and poet
1493:
- September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola (died c. 1545), Italian
- Anna Bijns (died 1575), Dutch
- Ján Silván (born 1573), Slovak
- Bernardo Tasso (died 1569), Italian
1494:
- November 5 – Hans Sachs (born 1576), German
1495:
- March 6 – Luigi Alamanni (died 1556), Italian poet and statesman
- Francisco Sa de Miranda (died 1558), Portuguese[12]
- Fuzûlî, also known as "Mehmed ibn Suleyman", Turkish[4]
- Suleiman the Magnificent born about this year (died 1566), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
1496:
- November 23 – Clément Marot (died 1544), French
- Lazare de Baïf (died 1547), French poet, diplomat and humanist
- Lorenzo Gambara, born about this year (died 1586), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Richard Maitland (died 1586), Scottish
- Girolamo Muzio (died 1575), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Nawade I, Burmese[4]
- Adam Reusner born sometime from 1471 to this year (died sometime from 1563 to 1582), German
- Johann Walter (died 1570), German poet and composer
- Lu Zhi (died 1576), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet
1497:
- August 13 – Tulsidas (died 1623), Indian saint and poet
- Francesco Berni born about this year, according to some sources, others say 1498 (died 1535), Italian writer and poet
- Philipp Melanchthon (died 1560), German professor, theologian and poet
1498:
- Francesco Berni born this year, according to some sources,[7] others say he was born about 1497 (died 1535), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Huang O (died 1569), Chinese poet[13]
- Marcantonio Flaminio (died 1550), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Meerabai मीराबाई (died 1547), alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Indian, Hindu poet-saint, mystical poet whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India
1499:
- Sebastian Franck, who called himself "Franck von Word" (died 1542 or 1543), German freethinker, humanist, radical reformer and poet
Deaths edit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
1490:
- Giovanni Michele Alberto Carrara (born 1438), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Alessandro Cortesi (born 1460), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Dafydd Gorlech (born 1410), Welsh language poet
- Gómez Manrique (born 1412), Spanish poet, soldier, politician and dramatist
- Sean mac Fergail Óicc Ó hÚigínn, Irish poet and Ollamh Érenn
- Francesco Rolandello (born 1427), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Martino Filetico (born 1430), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
1491:
- Jean Meschinot (born 1420), French
1492:
- November 6 – Antoine Busnois (born c. 1430), French composer and poet
- Blind Harry, also known as "Henry the Minstrel", (born c. 1440), Scottish makar (poet)
- Jami (born 1414), Persian scholar, mystic, writer, composer of numerous lyrics and idylls, historian, and Sufi poet
- Alfonso de Palencia (born 1423), Castilian pre-Renaissance historian, writer, and poet
- Lorenzo de' Medici (born 1440), Italian banker, politician, patron of the arts and poet who wrote in his native Tuscan
1493:
- Ermolao Barbaro, sources differ on his death year, with some simply stating this year[7] and others stating this year and 1495 are each possible,[14] born 1453), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Guto'r Glyn, approximate date (born c.1412), Welsh language poet
1494:
- November 17 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (born 1463), Renaissance humanist and Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- December 20 – Matteo Maria Boiardo (born c. 1434), Italian poet
- Galeotto Marzio, died this year or 1497 (born 1427 or 1428), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Angelo Poliziano, (born 1454), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
1495:
- Ermolao Barbaro, sources differ in his death year, with some simply giving 1493[7] and others stating that either that year or this year is possible[14] (born 1453), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- C. Aurelio Cambini died sometime after 1494 (born c. 1463), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
1496:
1497:
1498:
- Rodrigo Cota de Maguaque (born unknown), Spanish poet
- Diego de San Pedro (born 1437), Castilian writer and poet
- Cristoforo Landino (born 1424), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
- Conor Carragh Ó Curnín (born unknown), Irish poet
1499:
See also edit
- Poetry
- 15th century in poetry
- 15th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- Grands Rhétoriqueurs
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Other events:
16th century:
Notes edit
- ^ Carmi, T., The Penguin Book ofHebrew Verse, p 119, Penguin, 1981, ISBN 978-0-14-042197-2
- ^ Clarke, Elizabeth, Theory and theology in George Herbert's poetry: 'Divinitie, and Poesie, met, page 28, 1998, retrieved via Google Books on February 4, 2010
- ^ "Coplas de Manrique" article in Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7, p 650, 1918, retrieved via Google Books on July 15, 2012
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
- ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Web page titled "Stultifera Navis (The Ship of Fools): The Medieval Satire of Sebastian Brant" at the website of the University of Houston library, retrieved February 2, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.
- ^ Schnur, Rhoda and Roger P. H. Green, Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Abulensis: proceedings of the tenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Ávila, 4-9 August 1997, p 11, Published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000, ISBN 0-86698-249-3, ISBN 978-0-86698-249-8, retrieved via Google Books, May 21, 2009
- ^ Perosa, Allesandro and John Hanbury, Angus Sparrow, Renaissance Latin verse: an anthology, p xi and p 222, University of North Carolina Press, 1979, ISBN 0-8078-1350-8, ISBN 978-0-8078-1350-8, retrieved via Google Books, May 21, 2009
- ^ Gorni, Guglielmo and Massimo Danzi, Silvia Longhi Poeti lirici, burleschi, satirici e didascalici, p 376, published by Ricciardi, 2001, ISBN 88-7817-004-6, ISBN 978-88-7817-004-9, retrieved via Google Books, May 21, 2009
- ^ Grant, William Leonard, Neo-Latin literature and the pastoral, p 144, University of North Carolina Press, 1965, ("Equally unimportant are two eclogues of Girolamo Angeriano of Naples (ca. 1490-1535),"), retrieved via Google Books (quote appears on search results page with multiple results, not page devoted to the book), May 21, 2009
- ^ a b Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Olsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 63, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0-313-28803-8, ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
- ^ a b Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition