Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France
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).
Events
Works published
Great Britain
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*
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He wa ...
, posthumously published:
** ''
The Canterbury Tales
''The Canterbury Tales'' ( enm, Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's ''Masterpiece, ...
'', the Pynson edition (see ''Canturbyry Tales''
1477
Year 1477 (Roman numerals, MCDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 5 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold of Duchy of Burg ...
)
[Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ]
** ''The House of Fame'', publication year uncertain, Pynson edition (see also ''The House of Fame''
1483
Year 1483 ( MCDLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 1 – The Jews are expelled from Andalusia.
* February 11 – Th ...
)
[
** '' Troilus and Criseyde'', publication year uncertain, published anonymously, Pynson edition (see also ''Troilus and Criseyde'' ]1483
Year 1483 ( MCDLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 1 – The Jews are expelled from Andalusia.
* February 11 – Th ...
)[
]
Italy
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* Giorgio Anselmo Giorgio may refer to:
* Castel Giorgio, ''comune'' in Umbria, Italy
* Giorgio (name), an Italian given name and surname
* Giorgio Moroder, or Giorgio, Italian record producer
** ''Giorgio'' (album), an album by Giorgio Moroder
* "Giorgio" (song), ...
, six books of epigrams, octavo volumes, Parma; in Latin
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[Article]
"Anselmo, Giorgio"
pp 865–866, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), ''The biographical dictionary of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge'', Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843, p 865 retrieved via Google Books May 23, 2009
* Teofilo Folengo
Teofilo Folengo () (8 November 14919 December 1544), who wrote under the pseudonym of Merlino Coccajo or Merlinus Cocaius in Latin, was one of the principal Italian macaronic poets.
Biography
Folengo was born of noble parentage at Cipada near M ...
, writing under the pen name
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A pen na ...
"Limerno Pitocco (Merlin the Beggar) da Mantova", ''Orlandino'', a poem of eight cantos, written in rhymed octaves
* Jacopo Sannazaro:
** ''De Partu Virginis'' ("The Virgin's Childbirth"), epic, religious poem[Bondanella, Peter, and Julia Conaway Bondanella, co-editors, ''Dictionary of Italian Literature'', Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979]
** ''Piscatoria'' ("Piscatorial Eclogues"), five books are extant and a fragmentary version of a sixth book[
]
Other
* Shin Maha Rahtathara
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Biology
* The front part of the human leg below the knee
* Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates
Names
* Shin (given name) (Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese g ...
, ''Kogan Pyo'', Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
[Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article:
* Mahmud Abdülbâkî
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Siam Mahmud
*Mahmood (singer) (born 199 ...
(محمود عبد الباقى), known by his pen name
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A pen na ...
"Bâḳî" (باقى), Ottoman Turk
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(died 1600
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In the Gregorian calendar, it was the last century leap year until the year 2000.
Events
January–June
* January 1 – Scotland adopts January 1 as New Year's Day instead of March 25.
* January
** Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of T ...
)
* Tani Soyo 谷宗養 (died 1563
Year 1563 ( MDLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* February 1 – Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia.
* Janu ...
), Japanese renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko
Tani may refer to:
*Tani (letter), a letter in the Georgian scripts
*Tani people, a group of tribes in Arunachal Pradesh, India
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* Maiani language, also known as Tani, a lang ...
Deaths
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* Jean Marot
Jean Marot (Mathieu, near Caen, 1463 – c. 1526) was a French poet of the late 15th and early 16 century and the father of the French Renaissance poet Clément Marot. He is often grouped with the "Grands Rhétoriqueurs". Jean Marot seems to ha ...
died about this year (born c. 1450
Year 1450 ( MCDL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* February 7 – John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort ...
), French
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poet and father of poet Clément Marot
Clément Marot (23 November 1496 – 12 September 1544) was a French Renaissance poet.
Biography
Youth
Marot was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of 1496–1497. His father, Jean Marot (c.&n ...
See also
* Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
* 16th century in poetry
Works published
* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.
* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry (including pre-Columbian works).
Births and deaths
England
* John Skelton (c. 1460–152 ...
* 16th century in literature
This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century.
Events
1501
**Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's ''Aeneid'' ...
* French Renaissance literature
* Renaissance literature
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* Spanish Renaissance literature
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{{Lists of poets
16th-century poetry
Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...