Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
Great Britain
Anonymous, Sir Lamwell, publication year uncertain but thought to be sometime from 1530 to this year; a version of an Authurian "fairy mistress" tale from Marie de France's Lai de Lanval, written in the second half of the 12th century Geoffrey Chaucer, , edited by William Thynne (see also 1561, 1598); Great Britain William Walter, Guistarde and Sigismonde, translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, Day 4, Tale 1, translated from a Latin version by Leonardo Bruni and edited by Robert Copland); Great Britain
Other
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, first definitive version published; Italy
Clément Marot, L’Adolescence clémentine, including many poems in formes fixes (ballades and rondeaux) as well as the long allegorical poem Le Temple de Cupidon; the author's first published collection; France Yamazaki Sōkan, editor, Shinseninutsukubashū, significant anthology of early Japanese haikai renga from which haiku later developed François Villon, Oeuvres ("Works"), first edition with commentary on the works by Clément Marot; France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 19 – Jean-Antoine de Baïf (died 1589), French poet and member of La Pléiade Lelio Bonzi (death year not known), Italian, Latin-language poet Étienne Jodelle (died 1573) French poet and playwright Dominicus Lampsonius (died 1599), Flemish humanist, poet and artist Georg List (died 1596), German Thomas Norton (died 1584), politician and poet Bartholomäus Ringwaldt year of death uncertain (died 1599), German (or 1497?) – Gosvāmī Tulsīdās तुलसीदास, also known as "Tulasī Dāsa" and "Tulsidas" (died 1623) Awadhi poet and philosopher
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Juan del Encina died late this year or early 1533 (born 1468), Spanish poet, musician and playwright Andrzej Krzycki (born 1482), Polish archbishop, Latin prose writer and Polish-language poet often considered one of Poland's greatest humanist writers
