1257 in poetry
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Works published
- Bostan, a book of poetry, is completed by SaadiSaadi (poet)Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī better known by his pen-name as Saʿdī or, simply, Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is not only famous in Persian-speaking countries, but he has also been quoted in western sources...
Births
- Cecco d'AscoliCecco d'AscoliCecco d'Ascoli is the popular name of Francesco degli Stabili , a famous Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet. Cecco is the diminutive of Francesco.-Life:Born in Ancarano, in the modern Abruzzo region, he devoted himself to the study of mathematics and astrology...
(died 1327), Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet
Deaths
- Yuan HaowenYuan HaowenThe Chinese Sanqu poetry writer Yuan Haowen 元好問 was also known as Yishan 遺山 or “Yuan of Yi Mountain.” He was from Xinzhou in Shanxi province. His ancestors were of non-Chinese origins who changed their surname to Yuan. His father experienced disappointments in life and later led a secluded...
(born 1190), Chinese Sanqu poetryChinese Sanqu poetryChinese Sanqu poetry refers to a fixed-rhythm form of Classical Chinese poetry, or "literary song", specifically sanqu is a subtype of the qu formal type of poetry. Sanqu was a notable Chinese poetic form, possibly beginning in the Jin Dynasty ; but, especially associated with the Yuan , Ming ,...
writer - Lanfranc CigalaLanfranc CigalaLanfranc Cigala was a Genoese nobleman, knight, judge, and man of letters of the mid thirteenth century. He remains one of the most famous Occitan troubadours of Lombardy. Thirty-two of his poems survive, dealing with Crusading, heresy, papal power, peace in Christendom, and loyalty in love...
died 1257 or 1258 (born unknown), Genoese nobleman, knight, judge, and man of letters