1450s in poetry

Events

• August 1 - A manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy is sold in London

• Niccolò Perotti made Poet Laureate in Bologna by Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

  Works published

• Santillana, Bias contra Fortuna, published about this year; Spain
• Vetteve, Guttilaya, narrative poem by a Sinhalese monk

• Padmanabhan, Kanhadade Prabandha, Indian, Rajasthani-language

• François Villon, Le Petit Testament

  Births

• August 18 - Marko Marulić, Croatian poet, philosopher and Christian humanist, known as "the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age" and the "father of the Croatian Renaissance"; He signed his works as "Marko Marulić Splićanin", "Marko Pečenić", "Marcus Marulus Spalatensis", or "Dalmata"
• Hieronymus Balbus, also called "Girolamo Balbi" and "Accellini", born about this year, Italian, Renaissance humanist, Latin-language poet, diplomat, and bishop Latin-language poet
• Henry Bradshaw, English
• Benedetto Cariteo, Italian
• Gian Giacomo della Croce born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Per Raff Lille born about this year, Denmark
• Jean Marot born about this year, French poet and father of poet Clément Marot
• Faustino Perisauli born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Pothana, Telugu poet best known for his translation of the Bhagavata Purana from Sanskrit to Telugu
• Panfilo Sasso born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Cornelio Vitelli born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Francesco Negri , Italian, Latin-language poet

• Ermolao Barbaro, sources differ on his death year, with some simply stating 1493 and others stating 1493 year and 1495 are each possible,, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Filippo Beroaldo, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Michele Marullo, also known as "Michael Marullus", Italian, Latin-language poet

• Gerolamo Bologni, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from this year to 1456, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Angelo Poliziano, also known as "Politan" and "Angelo Ambrogini", Italian, Latin-language poet and humanist

• Probo de Marianis, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Giovanni Armonio Marso, born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Johannes Reuchlin, German

• Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from 1454 to this year, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Sebastian Brant born this year or in 1458, German
• Šiško Menčetić, Croatian poet and Ragusan nobleman
• Jacopo Sannazaro, also known as "Iacopo Sannazaro", Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin

• Pietro Bonomo, also known as "Petrus", Italian, humanist, diplomat, bishop of Trieste and Latin-language poet
• Sebastian Brant born this year or in 1457, German
• Giorgio Anselmo, born this year or sometime earlier, Italian, Latin-language poet; grandson of another Giogrio Anselmo, an Italian mathematician and astronomer
• Jacopo Sannazaro , Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin

• February 1 - Conrad Celtis, German and Latin-language poet

  Deaths

• Olivier Basselin, French poet
• Badr Shirvani, Persian poet

• John Lydgate, English monk and poet
• Michault Taillevent died about this year, French

• Gilbert Hay, or perhaps "Sir Gilbert the Hay", who may have been a different person; last mentioned this year, Scottish poet and translator
• Juan de Mena, Spanish poet appointed veinticuatro of Córdoba, secretario de cartas latinas and cronista real

• Basinio da Parma, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish

• March 3 - Ausiàs March, Spanish, Catalan poet
• Shōtetsu, Japanese Waka poet during the medieval period