1517 in poetry

Events

• Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino ("The [Golden] Ass")

Works published

• Teofilo Folengo, writing under the pen name "Merlin Cocaio", Opus Maccaronicum, collection of satiric poems, including Baldo; a blend of Latin with various Italian dialects in hexameter verse; many subsequent editions
• Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, written in 1184, a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books; "edito princeps" (first printed edition) published this year by Josse Badius Ascensius
• Francysk Skaryna, The Psalter, Old Belarusian language, printed August 6 by Skaryna at his press in Prague, one of the first book printers in Eastern Europe
• John Skelton, The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng, comic poem

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans (died 1582), French humanist poet
• Bargeo (died 1596), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Approximate date
  • Robert Crowley (died 1588), English stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (died 1547), English aristocrat and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• August – Andrea Ammonio (born 1478), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Gerolamo Bologni (born 1454), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Cornelio Paolo Amalteo (born c. 1460), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Girolamo Amaseo (born 1467), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Approximate date – Fausto Andrelino (born c. 1462), Italian, Latin-language poet

Notes

References

1. Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, {{ISBN. 0-8160-4197-0
2. [http://res.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/XLVIII/189/79 Review]{{dead link. (May 2021)
3. about tavern life; [[English poetry
4. Web page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp?ordine=crono "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. [https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono Archived] 2009-05-27.