Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
John Lydgate, writes The Fall of Princes, sometime from 1431–1438; later published posthumously in 1494, with extracts published separately as Proverbs in c. 1510[1]
Niccolò Perotti, also known as "Perotto" or "Nicolaus Perottus", born this year, according to some sources,[3] or 1429, according to others,[4] or either year, according to still others[5](died 1480), Italian humanist, author of one of the first modern Latin school grammars, and Latin-language poet[3]
Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal probable 1430 birth (died 1480), poet of the first known poem in the English language written by a Welshman
Ōta Dōkan (died 1486), Japanese samurai warrior-poet, military tactician and Buddhist monk; said to have been a skilled poet, but only fragments of his verse survive