1517 in poetry
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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,[1] 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[2]
- 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[1] about tavern life; Great Britain[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 25 â Jacques Pelletier du Mans (died 1582), French humanist poet
- Bargeo (died 1596), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- 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 â Andrea Ammonio (born 1478), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Gerolamo Bologni (born 1454), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Cornelio Paolo Amalteo (born c. 1460), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Girolamo Amaseo (born 1467), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Approximate date â Fausto Andrelino (born c. 1462), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
