1320s in poetry

Events

• May 3 : The Consistori del Gay Saber, founded the previous year in Toulouse to revive and perpetuate the lyric poetry of the Old Occitan troubadors, holds its first contest. Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari wins the violeta d'or for a sirventes in praise of the Virgin Mary. At about this date, Raimon de Cornet writes in support of the aims of the Gay Saber.

• April 6 : Tuscan writer Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of sonnets and other poems in Italian dedicated to her, which are collected into Il Canzoniere, an influential model for Renaissance culture.

  Works created

• Amir Khusrow writes Khazain-ul-Futuh

• Amir Khusrow writes the masnavi Duval Rani–Khizr Khan

• Amir Khusrow writes the masnavi Noh-Sepehr

• Approximate first publication of the Divine Comedy
• Erikskrönikan, 1320-1321, Sweden

• Raimon de Cornet writes Aras quan vey de bos homes fraytura, a planh for Amanieu VII of Albret, and his treatise Doctrinal de trobar

• Peire Lunel de Montech writes his Ensenhmane del garso and his Crusading song Mal veg trop apparelhar

• The deposed King Edward II of England perhaps writes the "Lament of Edward II"

  Births

• John Barbour, Scottish poet and the first major literary voice to write in Scots language
• Lalleshwari, Kashmiri poet and mystic
• Peter Suchenwirt, Austrian poet and herald

• Gidō Shūshin, Japanese luminary of the Zen Rinzai sect, was a master of poetry and prose in Chinese

• Zheng Yunduan, Chinese poet in the Yuan Dynasty

  Deaths

• September 13/September 14: Dante Alighieri, Italian poet of the Middle Ages, author of Divine Comedy
• date unknown: Yunus Emre, Turkish poet and Sufi mystic

• January 7: King Denis of Portugal, Occitan troubadour and monarch
• October: Amir Khusrow, Sufi, writing in Persian and Hindustani

• Shekh Bhano, Bangladesh who wrote the poetical work Ashararul Eshk

• Cecco d'Ascoli, Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet
• James II of Aragon, a Catalan troubadour

• Immanuel the Roman, Italian-Jewish scholar and satirical poet

• Albertino Mussato, Early Renaissance Italian statesman, poet, historian and dramatist