Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Gavin Douglas completed the Eneados, a complete Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid and the first full and faithful translation into any Germanic language of a major poem from classical antiquity.
John Skelton appointed Poet Laureate by Henry VIII of England
Anonymous, Ars amatoria, translated from the Latin of Ovid's Art of Love
John Lydgate, published anonymously, Troy Book, verse paraphrase of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae of 1287, in tern a Latin prose translation of the Roman de Troie (c. 1165) of Benoit de Sainte-Maure (see also The Life and Death of Hector 1614)
John Skelton, published anonymously, A Ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge, celebrating the defeat of the Scots at Flodden
Mallanarya of Gubbi, Bhava Chintaratna, India
Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Strozii poëtae pater et filius, his complete works together with works of his son; published by Aldus Manutius, Italy
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
December 23 – Sir Thomas Smith (died 1577), English scholar, diplomat and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January – Hans Folz (born c. 1437), German Meistersinger
Henry Bradshaw (born c. 1450), English
Robert Fabyan (birth year not known), English chronicler and sheriff
Bartolomeo Fonzio (born c. 1445), Italian, Latin-language poet
Naldo Naldi died about this year (born 1436), Italian, Latin-language poet
