1490s in poetry

Events

Works published

• Immanuel of Rome, Mahberot Imanu'el, published in Brescia, Italy, among the first books in Hebrew printed in Italy

• Savonarola, Apologeticus De Ratione Poeticae Artis, criticism; Italy
• Jorge Manrique, Coplas de Manrique por la muerte de su padre, Spanish lyric poem

• Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, Mizan al-Awzan, Turkish poems

• John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, 36,000-line poem translated c. 1431-1438 from the De casibus illustrium virorum of Boccaccio, posthumously published
• Shin Maha Rahtathara, Bhuridat Zatpaung Pyo, Burmese poem
• Sebastian Brant, Das Narrenschiff, much-translated satire, year of publication disputed, German

• Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato, epic poem, Italy

• Juan del Encina, Cancionero, one-act Spanish verse drama and poetry
• Gyssaub Vaeze Kashefi, Aklake Mohseni, prose and verse, Persian
• Shin Maha Rahtathara, Tada uti Mawgun, Burmese poetry collection

• John Lydgate, published anonymously, The Siege of Thebes, publication year uncertain, adapted c. 1421-1422 from an unknown French prose romance, posthumously published
• Jacob Locher, Das Narrenschiff, a translation, sometimes loose, into Latin from the original German of Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant
• Paul Riviere, a translation into French of Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant, from the original German

• Hinrek van Alkmaar, Reinke de Vos, animal epic poem, Netherlands
• Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, Char Divan, lyric poems Chagatai Turkish

• John Skelton, published anonymously, The Bouge of Court, publication year uncertain, written in 1488; a satirical dream-allegory about court life
• Gilber Hay publishes The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour, part of The Buik of Alexander romance stories
• Pierre Gringore, Chasteau de Labour, printed by Antoine Vérard, France

  Births

• April - Vittoria Colonna, Italian
• Girolamo Angeriano, also known as "Hieronymus Angerianus" born sometime between about 1470 and about 1490, Italian, Latin-language poet; sources differ on his birth year, with some stating 1470, others giving "c. 1480" and another c. 1490
• Juan Boscan, original Catalan name: "Joan Boscà Almogàver", born about this year, Catalan poet who wrote in Spanish
• Cristobal de Castillejo born about this year, Spanish
• Sir David Lindsay, Scottish
• Jean Salmon Macrin, French, Latin-language poet
• Francesco Pittiani, born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Giuseppe Sporeni, born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet

• November 8 - Teofilo Folengo,, Italian poet who wrote in Italian, Latin and a Macaronic style mixing the two
• Bach Van, also known as "Nguyen Bin Khiem", Vietnamese poet
• Latifî, also known as Kastamonulu Latifî Çelebi, Ottoman poet and bibliographer
• Mellin de Saint-Gelais, French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France

• Pietro Aretino, Italian poet and playwright
• Antoine Héroët, poète et clerc français, mort vers 1567.
• Marguerite de Navarre, also known as "Marguerite of Angoulême" and "Margaret of Navarre", French queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre; patron of humanists and reformers, author, playwright and poet

• September 28 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian
• Anna Bijns, Dutch
• Ján Silván, Slovak
• Bernardo Tasso, Italian

• November 5 - Hans Sachs, German

• March 6 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman
• Francisco Sa de Miranda, Portuguese
• Fuzûlî, also known as "Mehmed ibn Suleyman", Turkish
• Suleiman the Magnificent born about this year, Ottoman Empire sultan and poet

• November 23 - Clément Marot, French
• Lazare de Baïf, French poet, diplomat and humanist
• Lorenzo Gambara, born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Richard Maitland, Scottish
• Girolamo Muzio, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Nawade I, Burmese
• Adam Reusner born sometime from 1471 to this year, German
• Johann Walter, German poet and composer
• Lu Zhi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet

• Francesco Berni born about this year, according to some sources, others say 1498, Italian writer and poet
• Philipp Melanchthon, German professor, theologian and poet

• Francesco Berni born this year, according to some sources, others say he was born about 1497, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Huang O, Chinese poet
• Marcantonio Flaminio, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Meerabai मीराबाई , alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Indian, Hindu poet-saint, mystical poet whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India

• Sebastian Franck, who called himself "Franck von Word", German freethinker, humanist, radical reformer and poet

  Deaths

• Giovanni Michele Alberto Carrara, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Alessandro Cortesi, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Dafydd Gorlech, Welsh language poet
• Gómez Manrique, Spanish poet, soldier, politician and dramatist
• Sean mac Fergail Óicc Ó hÚigínn, Irish poet and Ollamh Érenn
• Francesco Rolandello, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Martino Filetico, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Jean Meschinot, French

• November 6 - Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet
• Blind Harry, also known as "Henry the Minstrel",, Scottish makar
• Jami, Persian scholar, mystic, writer, composer of numerous lyrics and idylls, historian, and Sufi poet
• Alfonso de Palencia, Castilian pre-Renaissance historian, writer, and poet
• Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian banker, politician, patron of the arts and poet who wrote in his native Tuscan

• Ermolao Barbaro, sources differ on his death year, with some simply stating this year and others stating this year and 1495 are each possible, born 1453), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Guto'r Glyn, approximate date, Welsh language poet

• November 17 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Renaissance humanist and Italian, Latin-language poet
• December 20 - Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
• Galeotto Marzio, died this year or 1497, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Angelo Poliziano,, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Ermolao Barbaro, sources differ in his death year, with some simply giving 1493 and others stating that either that year or this year is possible, Italian, Latin-language poet
• C. Aurelio Cambini died sometime after 1494, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Callimaco Esperiente, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Galeotto Marzio died this year or 1494, Italian, Latin-language poet

• Rodrigo Cota de Maguaque, Spanish poet
• Diego de San Pedro, Castilian writer and poet
• Cristoforo Landino, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Conor Carragh Ó Curnín, Irish poet

• Quinto Emiliano Cimbriaco died about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Probo de Marianis, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Jeronim Vidulić, Croatian Renaissance poet