1490s in poetry

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Events[]

Works published[]

English poet John Lydgate, died c. 1451 but published this decade

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:

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]
  • , Bhuridat Zatpaung Pyo, poem[4]
  • Sebastian Brant, Das Narrenschiff ("The Ship of Fools"), much-translated satire, year of publication disputed, German[4]

1495:

1496:

  • Juan del Encina, Cancionero, one-act Spanish verse drama and poetry[4]
  • , Aklake Mohseni ("Morals of the Beneficent"), prose and verse, Persian[4]
  • , Tada uti Mawgun, 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]
  • , 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:

  • , 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[]

Marguerite de Navarre, born 1491
Portrait of Philip Melanchthon (born 1497), by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Artist's depiction of Mirabai, Hindu poet, born 1498
French poet Clément Marot

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]
  • , born about this year (died 1552), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]
  • , 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
  • , also known as "", 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:

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 "", Turkish[4]
  • Suleiman the Magnificent born about this year (died 1566), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet

1496:

1497:

  • 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]
  • (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[]

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; portrait by an unknown artist, in the Uffizi, Florence
Ermolao Barbaro

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

1490:

1491:

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
  • , 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]
  • died sometime after 1494 (born c. 1463), Italian, Latin-language poet[7]

1496:

1497:

1498:

1499:

See also[]

Other events:

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Notes[]

  1. ^ Carmi, T., The Penguin Book ofHebrew Verse, p 119, Penguin, 1981, ISBN 978-0-14-042197-2
  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
  3. ^ "Coplas de Manrique" article in Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7, p 650, 1918, retrieved via Google Books on July 15, 2012
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  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
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ 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
  11. ^ 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
  12. ^ 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
  13. ^ 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
  14. ^ a b Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition
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