1430s in poetry

Events

• John Lydgate, writes The Fall of Princes, sometime from 1431-1438; later published posthumously in 1494, with extracts published separately as Proverbs in c. 1510

  Works published

• Santillana, Comedieta de Ponça, in Early Modern Spanish

• Asukai Masayo, compiler, Shinshokukokin Wakashū 新続古今和歌集 an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, year of completion uncertain; compiled by the Emperor Go-Hanazono ordered it in 1433; consists of twenty volumes containing 2,144 poems; the last Imperial anthology of Japanese poems

  Births

• Antoine Busnois born about this year, French composer and poet
• Elisio Calenzio, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Martino Filetico, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Niccolò Perotti, also known as "Perotto" or "Nicolaus Perottus", born this year, according to some sources, or 1429, according to others, or either year, according to still others, Italian humanist, author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars, and Latin-language poet
• Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal probable 1430 birth, poet of the first known poem in the English language written by a Welshman

• Ubertino Pusculo, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Raffaele Zovenzoni, Italian, Latin-language poet
• François Villon born about this year, French lyric poet, thief and vagabond

• August 15 - Luigi Pulci, Italian
• Ōta Dōkan, Japanese samurai warrior-poet, military tactician and Buddhist monk; said to have been a skilled poet, but only fragments of his verse survive

• Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian
• Antonio Bonfini, Italian humanist and poet
• Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet especially of Humanist poetry

• Hans Folz born sometime from this year to 1440, German
• Jean Molinet, French poet, chronicler, and composer

• Gabriele Altilio, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Naldo Naldi, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Callimaco Esperiente, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Giovanni Michele Alberto Carrara, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Ugolino Verino, Italian, Latin-language poet

  Deaths

• Alain Chartier, French poet and political writer

• Felip de Malla, Catalan prelate, theologian, scholastic, orator, classical scholar, and poet
• Andrea da Barberino, Italian writer and poet

• Christine de Pizan, 1430, according to another source , Italian poet who wrote courtly poetry in French