Scotland

• Anonymous, Golagros and Gawain, a Middle Scots
  Middle Scots
  Middle Scots was the Anglic language of Lowland Scotland in the period from 1450 to 1700. By the end of the 13th century its phonology, orthography, accidence, syntax and vocabulary had diverged markedly from Early Scots, which was virtually indistinguishable from early Northumbrian Middle English...
  
   romance written in the late 15th century in alliterative metre; based on two episodes from the First Continuation of Chretien de Troyes
  Chrétien de Troyes
  Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère who flourished in the late 12th century. Perhaps he named himself Christian of Troyes in contrast to the illustrious Rashi, also of Troyes...
  
  ' Perceval, ou le Conte du Graal
• Andrew Cadiou, Porteous of Nobleness, a Scots version of Alain Chartier
  Alain Chartier
  Alain Chartier was a French poet and political writer.He was born at Bayeux, into a family marked by considerable ability. His eldest brother Guillaume became bishop of Paris; and Thomas became notary to the king. Jean Chartier, a monk of St Denis, whose history of Charles VII is printed in vol. III...
  
  's Le Breviaire des Nobles
• William Dunbar
  William Dunbar
  William Dunbar was a Scottish poet. He was probably a native of East Lothian, as assumed from a satirical reference in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie , where, too, it is hinted that he was a member of the noble house of Dunbar....
  
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  • The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, and Other Poems, a fragmentary text of The Flyting, to which is added two short poems, attributed to Henryson
    Robert Henryson
    Robert Henryson was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities...
    
    , and by an anonymous author
  • The Golden Targe
• Henry the Minstrel, also known as Blind Harry
  Blind Harry
  Blind Harry , also known as Harry, Hary or Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the author of The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace...
  
  , The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace
  The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace
  The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace, is a long "romantic biographical" poem by the fifteenth century Scottish makar of the name Blind Harry probably at some time in the decade before 1488...
  
  , publication year uncertain; written c. 1478 in Scots verse, supposedly derived from a Latin original; one of the most popular works of Scottish poetry of this era
• Robert Henryson
  Robert Henryson
  Robert Henryson was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp between medieval and renaissance sensibilities...
  
  , Orpheus and Eurydice, published anonymously, publication year uncertain
• Richard Holland
  Richard Holland
  Richard Holland or Richard de Holande , Scottish writer, author of the Buke of the Howlat, was secretary or chaplain to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray and rector of Halkirk, near Thurso....
  
  , Buke of the Howlat, publication year uncertain; written c. 1450, in the poem an assembly of birds hears the Owl bitterly complaining against Dame Nature for making him ugly
• John Lydgate
  John Lydgate
  John Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, Suffolk, England.Lydgate is at once a greater and a lesser poet than John Gower. He is a greater poet because of his greater range and force; he has a much more powerful machine at his command. The sheer bulk of Lydgate's poetic output is...
  
  , The Complaint of the Black Knight
  The Complaint of the Black Knight
  The Complaint of the Black Knight, by the English monk John Lydgate, is the oldest surviving book printed in Scotland which displays the printing date: 4 April 1508...
  
  

Other

• William Hendred, The Pylgrymage of Man, London, Great Britain
  English poetry
  The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
  
  
• Jean Lemaire de Belges
  Jean Lemaire de Belges
  Jean Lemaire de Belges was a Walloon poet and historian who lived primarily in France.He was born in Hainaut , the godson and possibly a nephew of Jean Molinet, and spent some time with him at Valenciennes, where the elder writer held a kind of academy of poetry. Lemaire in his first poems calls...
  
  , La Concorde du genre humain, Walloon poet published in France
  French poetry
  French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
  
  

Births

• Jean Daurat
  Jean Daurat
  Jean Daurat was a French poet, scholar, and a member of a group known as The Pléiade.-Early life:...
  
   also spelled "Jean Dorat"; Latin name: "Auratus" (died 1588
  1588 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love either this year or in 1589 -Great Britain:...
  
  ), French
  French poetry
  French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
  
   poet and scholar, member of the Pléiade
  La Pléiade
  The Pléiade is the name given to a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad of seven Alexandrian poets and...
  
  
• Marin Držić
  Marin Držic
  Marin Držić is considered the finest Croatian Renaissance playwright and prose writer.- Life :Born into a large and well to do family in Dubrovnik, Držić was trained and ordained as a priest — a calling very unsuitable for his rebel temperament...
  
  , also known as "Marino Darza" and "Marino Darsa" (died 1567
  1567 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Arthur Golding, Metamorphosis, Books 1–15, * George Turberville:** The Eglogs of the Poet B...
  
  ), Croatian dramatist, author and poet

Deaths

• Conrad Celtis (born 1459), German and Latin
  Latin poetry
  The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
  
  -language poet
• May 13 – Martial d'Auvergne (born 1420), French
  French poetry
  French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
  
   poet
• Pietro Antonio Piatti (born 1442), Italian
  Italian poetry
  -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
  
  , Latin
  Latin poetry
  The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
  
  -language poet

See also

• Poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• 16th century in poetry
  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 .-England:* John Skelton -Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva...
  
  
• 16th century in literature
  16th century in literature
  See also: 16th century in poetry, 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:1508...
  
  
• French Renaissance literature
  French Renaissance literature
  For more information on historical developments in this period see: Renaissance, History of France, and Early Modern France.For information on French art and music of the period, see French Renaissance....
  
  
• Grands Rhétoriqueurs
  Grands Rhétoriqueurs
  The Grands Rhétoriqueurs or simply the "Rhétoriqueurs" is the name given to a group of poets from 1460 to 1520 working in Northern France, Flanders and the Duchy of Burgundy whose ostentatious poetic production was dominated by an extremely rich rhyme scheme and experimentation with assonance...
  
  
• Renaissance literature
  Renaissance literature
  Renaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century...
  
  
• Spanish Renaissance literature
  Spanish Renaissance literature
  Spanish Renaissance literature is the literature written in Spain during the Renaissance.-Introduction:The political, religious, literary, and war relations between Italy and Spain since the second half of the 15th century caused a remarkable cultural interchange between these two countries...