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

Events

Works published

Great Britain

1494:

• John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, translated c. 1431–1438 from the De casibus illustrium virorum of Boccaccio (see also Lydgate's Proverbs 1510), posthumously published

1497:

• John Lydgate, published anonymously, The Siege of Thebes, publication year uncertain, adapted c. 1421–1422 from an unknown French prose romance, posthumously published

1499:

• John Skelton, published anonymously, The Bouge of Court, publication year uncertain, written in 1488; a satirical dream-allegory about court life

Other

1499:

• Pierre Gringore, Chasteau de Labour, printed by Antoine Vérard, France

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

1490:

• 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
• Salmon Macrin (died 1557), French, Latin-language poet

1491:

• Teofilo Folengo (died 1544)
• Mellin de Saint Gelais (born 1558), Portuguese

1492:

• Antoine Héroët, poète et clerc français, mort vers 1567.
• Marguerite de Navarre, also known as "Marguerite of Angouleme" 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:

• Anna Bijns (died 1575), Dutch
• Ján Silván (born 1573), Slovak
• Bernardo Tasso (died 1569), Italian

1494:

• November 5 – Hans Sachs (born 1576), German

1495:

• Francisco Sa de Miranda (died 1558), Portuguese
• Suleyman the Magnificent born about this year (died 1556), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet

1496:

• Lazare de Baïf (died 1547), French poet, diplomat and humanist
• Clement Marot (died 1544), French
• Adam Reusner born sometime from 1471 to this year (died sometime from 1563 to 1582), German
• Johann Walter (died 1570), German poet and composer

1497:

• Francesco Berni (died 1535), Italian writer and poet
• Philipp Melanchthon (died 1560), German professor, theologian and poet

1498:

• Marcantonio Flaminio (died 1550), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Meerabai मीराबाई (died 1547), alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Indian, Hindu poet-saint, mystical poetess 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 (born 1499), German freethinker, humanist, radical reformer and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

1492:

• Jami (born 1414), Persian

See also

• 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:

• Other events of the 15th century
• Other events of the 16th century

16th century:

• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature

Notes

1. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

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