1450s in poetry

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Events

1450:

Fairfax Manuscript thought to have been completed, for John Stanley of Hooton, Cheshire ("Anno 1450" inscribed on folio 1r).

1451:

August 1 – A manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy is sold in London

1452:

Niccolò Perotti made Poet Laureate in Bologna by Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

Works published

1450:

Santillana, Bias contra Fortuna, published about this year; Spain

Vetteve, Guttilaya, narrative poem by a Sinhalese monk

1454:

Padmanabhan, Kanhadade Prabandha, Indian, Rajasthani-language

1456:

François Villon, Le Petit Testament

Births

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

1450:

August 18 – Marko Marulić (died 1524), Croatian poet, philosopher and Christian humanist, known as "the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age" and the "father of the Croatian Renaissance"; He signed his works as "Marko Marulić Splićanin" ("Marko Marulić of Split"), "Marko Pečenić", "Marcus Marulus Spalatensis", or "Dalmata"

Hieronymus Balbus, also called "Girolamo Balbi" and "Accellini", born about this year (died c. 1530), Italian, Renaissance humanist, Latin-language poet, diplomat, and bishop Latin-language poet

Henry Bradshaw (died 1513), English

Benedetto Cariteo (died 1514), Italian

Gian Giacomo della Croce born about this year (died sometime after 1502), Italian, Latin-language poet

Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500), Italian, Latin-language poet

Per Raff Lille born about this year (died c. 1500), Denmark

Jean Marot born about this year (born c. 1526), French poet and father of poet Clément Marot

Faustino Perisauli born about this year (died 1523), Italian, Latin-language poet

Pothana (died 1510), Telugu poet best known for his translation of the Bhagavata Purana from Sanskrit to Telugu

Panfilo Sasso born about this year (died 1527), Italian, Latin-language poet

Cornelio Vitelli born about this year (died c. 1525), Italian, Latin-language poet

1452

Francesco Negri (humanist) (died 1524 or sometime later), Italian, Latin-language poet

1453:

Ermolao Barbaro, sources differ on his death year, with some simply stating 1493 and others stating 1493 year and 1495 are each possible (1493),(born 1453), Italian, Latin-language poet

Filippo Beroaldo (died 1505), Italian, Latin-language poet

Michele Marullo, also known as "Michael Marullus" (died 1500, or about that year), Italian, Latin-language poet

1454:

Gerolamo Bologni (died 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet

Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from this year to 1456, Italian, Latin-language poet

Angelo Poliziano, also known as "Politan" and "Angelo Ambrogini" (died 1494), Italian, Latin-language poet and humanist

1455:

Probo de Marianis (died 1499), Italian, Latin-language poet

Giovanni Armonio Marso, born about this year (death year not known), Italian, Latin-language poet

Johannes Reuchlin (died 1522), German

1456:

Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli (died 1524), Italian, Latin-language poet

Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from 1454 to this year, Italian, Latin-language poet

1457:

Sebastian Brant born this year or in 1458 (died 1521), German

Šiško Menčetić (died 1527), Croatian poet and Ragusan nobleman

Jacopo Sannazaro, also known as "Iacopo Sannazaro" (died 1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin

1458:

Pietro Bonomo, also known as "Petrus" (died 1546), Italian, humanist, diplomat, bishop of Trieste and Latin-language poet

Sebastian Brant born this year or in 1457 (died 1521), German

Giorgio Anselmo, born this year or sometime earlier (died 1528), Italian, Latin-language poet; grandson of another Giogrio Anselmo, an Italian mathematician and astronomer (died 1440)

Jacopo Sannazaro (died 1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin

1459:

February 1 – Conrad Celtis (died 1508), German and Latin-language poet

Deaths

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1450:

Olivier Basselin (born 1400), French poet

Badr Shirvani (born 1387), Persian poet

1451:

John Lydgate (born 1370), English monk and poet

Michault Taillevent died about this year (born c. 1395), French

1456:

Gilbert Hay, or perhaps "Sir Gilbert the Hay", who may have been a different person; last mentioned this year (born c.