1440s in poetry

Events

• 1445 - Printing press developed in Europe

  Works published

• Cancionero de Baena, the first collection of Castilian lyrics, Spain

• Amoryus and Cleopes, poem by John Metham, English adaptation of the Pyramus and Thisbe narrative from Ovid‘s Metamorphoses

  Births

• Lorenzo de' Medici, born January 1, Italian banker, politician, patron of the arts and poet who wrote in his native Tuscan language
• Martial d'Auvergne, French
• Hans Folz born sometime from 1435 to this year, German
• Blind Harry, also known as "Henry the Minstrel", born about this year, Scottish makar
• Kabir, mystic poet and saint of India
• Lorenzo Lippi , Italian, Latin-language poet
• Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet
• Paolo Marsi, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Molla, also known as "Mollamamba", both popular names of Atukuri Molla, Indian poet who wrote Telugu Ramayan; a woman
• Ludovico Pontico born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Giorgio Sisgoreo born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Francesco Uberti , Italian, Latin-language poet

• Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, Persian or Turkish poet and scholar

• Amerigo Corsini, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Pietro Antonio Piatti born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Matteo Canale, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Pandolfo Collenuccio, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Cantalicio, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Bartolomeo Fonzio born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Domizio Calderini, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noblewoman and writer
• Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician, and religious figure

• Baptista Mantuanus, also known as "Battista Mantovano" and "Johannes Baptista Spagnolo" , Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin-language poet

• Johannes von Soest, German composer, theorist and poet

• Quinto Emiliano Cimbriaco born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Antonio Geraldini born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Aldo Manuzio, Italian, Latin-language poet

  Deaths

• Cuacuauhtzin, Aztec lord and poet in the Pre-Columbian nahua world
• Nund Reshi, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet

• Nguyễn Trãi, Vietnamese Confucian scholar, poet, politician and tactician

• Tomas af Strangnas, Swedish

• Andreu Febrer died about this year, Catalan Spanish translator of the Divine Comedy

• Vidyapati, also known as Vidyapati Thakur and called Maithil Kavi Kokil "the poet cuckoo of Maithili", died about this year, Indian, Maithili-language poet and Sanskrit writer