Overview of the events of 1485 in poetry
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Events
- Robert Henryson's cycle The Morall Fabillis probably composed in the 1480s; earliest datable manuscripts of John Barbour's Scottish chivalric epic, Brus, also in this decade.
Works published
1480:
1481:
- Luigi Pulci, Morgante, a 23-canto version (see also 1473, 1482 and the final Morgante Maggiore 1483); Italy
1482:
- Luigi Pulci, Morgante, a 23-canto version (see also 1473, 1481 and the final, 28-canto Morgante Maggiore 1483); Italy
1483:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, English, all posthumously published:
- The House of Fame, edited by William Caxton, an unfinished dream-poem; Caxton wrote the 12-line conclusion
- Troilus and Criseyde, published anonymously, publication year uncertain
- John Gower, Confessio Amantis, written about 1390
- Jami, Yusuf u Zulaikha ("Joseph and Zulaikha"), Persian
- John Lydgate, The Book of the Lyf of Our Lady, written at the request of Henry V of England; a very popular poem, with many manuscript copies extant in modern times; Great Britain
- Luigi Pulci, Morgante, sometimes also called Morgante Maggiore (the "Greater Morgante", the name give to the complete 28 canto edition) published in final form this year (see also the shorter versions published in 1473, 1481 and 1482); Italy
1484:
- Shin Maha Rahtathara, Bhuridat Lingagyi, Burma
1485:
1486:
1487:
- Alaoddoule Bakhtishah Samarqandi Daulatshah, Tazkerat Osh-sho-Ara ("The Record of Poets"), Persian literary history (scholarship)
- Blind Harry, The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace, long "romantic biographical" poem, probably created and published some time in the decade up to this year
1488:
- Sogi, Poem of One Hundred Links Composed by Three Poets at Minase, Japan
1489:
- François Villon, Le Grant Testament Villon et le petit. Son codicille. Le jargon & ses ballades, this was the first publication of various poems of the author, although some are incomplete; includes Poems 1–6 of his "Ballades en jargon"Paris: Pierre Levet (Poems 7–11 were first published in 1892), France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
1480:
- Pir Sultan Abdal (died 1550), Ottoman Empire
- Girolamo Angeriano, also known as "Hieronymus Angerianus" born sometime between about 1470 and about 1490 (died 1535), Italian, Latin-language poet; sources differ on his birth year, with some stating 1470, others giving "c. 1480" and another c. 1490
- Giovanni Cotta, born about this year (died 1510), Italian, Latin-language poet
- Giovanni Guidiccioni (died 1541), Italian
- Riccardo Sbruglio, born about this year (died 1480 – died after 1525), Italian, Latin-language poet
1481:
1482:
- Andrzej Krzycki (died 1532), Polish archbishop, Latin prose writer and Polish-language poet often considered one of Poland's greatest humanist writers
- Bernardim Ribeiro (died 1552), Portuguese
- Matthias Ringmann (died 1511), German cartographer and humanist poet
- Antonio Tilesio (died 1534), Italian, Latin-language poet
- Mavro Vetranović (died 1576), Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar
1483:
- November 10 – Martin Luther (died 1546), German Protestant leader and hymn-writer
- Benet Burgh (birth year unknown), English translator
- Fuzûlî (فضولی) (died c. 1556), Ottoman Empire
- Aurelio Casellio (died 1552), Italian, Latin-language poet
- Andrea Navagero (died 1483–1529), Italian, Latin-language poet
1484:
- Jón Arason (died 1550), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet
- Purandara Dasa (died 1564), Hindu composer of Carnatic music and Kannada poetry
- Niklaus Manuel (died 1530), Swiss, German-language poet
- Giulio Cesare Scaligero, (died 1558), Italian, Latin-language poet
- Paul Speratus (died 1581), German
- Huldrych Zwingli (died 1531), Swiss theologian, priest, poet, and writer
1485:
- November 30 – Veronica Gambara (died 1550), Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader born in Lombardy
- Hanibal Lucić (died 1553), Croatian poet and playwright
- Nikolaus Decius (died sometime after 1546), German
- Marco Girolamo Vida born about this year (died 1566), Italian, Latin-language poet
1486:
- Pedro Manuel Jiménez de Urrea, (died 1535), Spanish Renaissance poet and playwright
1487:
- Petar Hektorović (died 1572), Croatian writer, poet and collector
1488:
- January 6 – Helius Eobanus Hessus (died 1540), German, Latin poet
- Ulrich von Hutten (died 1523), German
- Michael Weiße (died 1534), German theologian and hymn writer
- Yang Shen (died 1559), Chinese poet
1489:
- Francesco Maria Molza (died 1544), Italian, Latin-language poet
- Thomas Müntzer (died 1525), German
- Rupa Goswami (died 1564), Hindu devotional teacher, poet, and philosopher
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
1480:
- December 14 – Niccolò Perotti, also known as "Perotto" or "Nicolaus Perottus" (born 1430, according to some sources, or 1429, according to others, or either year, according to still others) Italian humanist, translator, author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars, and Latin-language poet
- Giovanni Mario Filelfo (born 1426), Italian, Latin-language poet
- Probable date – Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (born 1430), Welsh poet writing in English, the first known to do so
- Approximate date – Raffaele Zovenzoni (born 1431), Italian, Latin-language poet
1481:
- Ikkyū (born 1394), eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet
- Approximate date – Narsinh Mehta, alternate spelling: Narasingh Mehta (born c. 1414), Indian, Gujarati-language Hindu poet-saint notable as a bhakta, an exponent of Hindu devotional religious poetry; acclaimed as Adi Kavi (Sanskrit for "first among poets") of Gujarat, where he is especially revered
1482:
- (or 1502) – Bonino Mombrizio (born 1424), Italian, Latin-language poet
1483:
- Anthony Woodville (born c. 1422), English poet and translator
- Approximate date – Richard Holland, Scottish cleric and poet
1484:
- August 24 – Ippolita Maria Sforza (born 1446), Italian noblewoman and writer
- November 11 – Luigi Pulci (born 1432), Italian poet and diplomat
- Paolo Marsi (born 1440), Italian, Latin-language poet
1485:
- Lorenzo Lippi da Colle (born 1440), Italian, Latin-language poet (not to be confused with Lorenzo Lippi (1606–1664), Italian painter and poet)
1486:
- Ōta Dōkan (born 1432), Japanese samurai warrior-poet, military tactician and Buddhist monk; said to have been a skilled poet, but only fragments of his verse survive
1487:
1488:
- Andronico Callisto, died sometime after 1487, Italian, Latin-language poet
1489:
- Antonio Geraldini (born c. 1449–1489), Italian, Latin-language poet
See also
- Poetry
- 15th century in poetry
- 15th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- Grands Rhétoriqueurs
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Other events:
16th century:
Notes
- Alessandra Petrina , "Robert Henryson's 'Orpheus and Euridice'and its Sources", essay (which also refers to the Morall Fabillis), in DuBruck, Gusick and McDonald (Eds.), "Fifteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 33", Cambridge University Press (2008), p.198.
- Brown, Michael , "Barbour's Brus in the 1480s, Literature and Locality", essay in , Boardman, S. and Foran, S. (Eds.) Barbour's Bruce and its Cultural Contexts: Politics, Chivalry and Literature in Late Medieval Scotland (2015), p.214.
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
- Anne McKim (editor), The Wallace, Canongate Classics, 2003. p.viii
- Web page titled "François Villon (1431 - 1463)", Poetry Foundation website, retrieved November 14, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.
- Schnur, Rhoda and Roger P. H. Green, Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Abulensis: proceedings of the tenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Ávila, 4-9 August 1997, p 11, Published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000, ISBN 0-86698-249-3, ISBN 978-0-86698-249-8, retrieved via Google Books, May 21, 2009
- Perosa, Allesandro and John Hanbury, Angus Sparrow, Renaissance Latin verse: an anthology, p xi and p 222, University of North Carolina Press, 1979, ISBN 0-8078-1350-8, ISBN 978-0-8078-1350-8, retrieved via Google Books, May 21, 2009
- Gorni, Guglielmo and Massimo Danzi, Silvia Longhi Poeti lirici, burleschi, satirici e didascalici, p 376, published by Ricciardi, 2001, ISBN 88-7817-004-6, ISBN 978-88-7817-004-9, retrieved via Google Books, May 21, 2009
- Grant, William Leonard, Neo-Latin literature and the pastoral, p 144, University of North Carolina Press, 1965, ("Equally unimportant are two eclogues of Girolamo Angeriano of Naples (ca. 1490-1535),"), retrieved via Google Books (quote appears on search results page with multiple results, not page devoted to the book), May 21, 2009
- Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- Stringer, Charles, "Italian Renaissance Learning and the Church Fathers", chapter in Volume 2, p 494, of Backus, Irene (editor), The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West: From the Carolingians to the Maurists], BRILL, 1997, ISBN 90-04-09722-8, ISBN 978-90-04-09722-3, retrieved via Google Books on May 24, 2009
- Martial (introduction, translation and commentary by Kathleen M. Coleman), M. Valerii Martialis Liber spectaculorum, p 185 (cites "Charlet (1997)", bibliography unavailable online), Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-19-814481-4, ISBN 978-0-19-814481-6 retrieved via Google Books May 24, 2009