1420s in poetry

Events

Works published

• Antonio Beccadelli, Hermaphroditus, a collection of 81 Latin epigrams
• Alain Chartier, La Belle Dame sans Merci; France

• Christine de Pisan, Le Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc, France

  Births

• Martial d'Auvergne, French poet
• Giovanni Mattia Tabarino, born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Jean Meschinot, French

• Sōgi 宗祇, Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s

• Anthony Woodville born about this year, English poet and translator

• Alfonso de Palencia, Castilian pre-Renaissance historian, writer, and poet

• Cristoforo Landino, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Bonino Mombrizio, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Tito Vespasiano Strozzi born this year or in 1425, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Basinio da Parma, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Tito Vespasiano Strozzi born this year or in 1424, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Suster Bertken born this year or 1427, Dutch
• Bhalam born about this year, Indian, Gujarati-language poet
• Jalaladdin Davani, Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet
• Giovanni Mario Filelfo, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler

• Suster Bertken born this year or 1426, Dutch
• Galeotto Marzio, born this year or 1428, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Francesco Rolandello, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Galeotto Marzio born this year or 1427, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Giannantonio Campano, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, also known as "Iovianus Pontanus", Italian, Latin-language poet
• Niccolò Perotti, also known as "Perotto" or "Nicolaus Perottus", born 1430 Italian humanist, translator, author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars, and Latin-language poet

  Deaths

• Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín, Irish historian, topographer and poet

• Anselm Turmeda, also known as "Abd-Allah at-Tarjuman" عبد الله الترجمان, a poet who wrote in both Catalan Spanish and, after converting to Islam, in Arabic
• Andrew of Wyntoun, also known as Andrew Wyntoun, Scottish poet, a canon and prior
• Hugo von Montfort, Austrian minstrel and representative of the German Minnesang

• Jordi de Sant Jordi, died about this year Chamberlain at the court of King Alfons V of Aragon, but better known for his poetry

• John Audelay, also spelled "John Awdelay", died about this year, English priest and poet who wrote in a Staffordshire dialect of Middle English
• Süleyman Çelebi, Turkish poet
• Thomas Hoccleve, died between March and May, English poet