Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or Vietnam).

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• Anonymous, Adam bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly, an outlaw ballad, reprinted numerous times through the mid-17th century (a continuation, Young Cloudeslie, was published in 1608 in poetry)^[1]
• Anonymous, Octavian, publication year uncertain (1504–1506); written in the mid-14th century from a French version; among the many themes the work draws on are the St. Eustace legend and the "Calumniated Wife"^[1]
• Anonymous, Sir Torrent of Portingale, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th to early 15th century^[1]
• Alexander Barclay, The Castell of Laboure,^[2] published anonymously; publication year uncertain, London: "Imprinted be ... Richarde Pynson",^[2] translation from the French of Pierre Gringoire^[1]

• Jean Lemaire de Belges, Belgian Waloon poet writing in French:
  • La couronne margaritique (this year or 1504), on the death of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, the second husband of Archduchess Margaret of Austria, to whom the author was court poet;^[3]
  • Epîtres de l'amant vert, mock epistles presented as having been written by the pet parrot of Marguerite d'Autriche; the parrot dies from its love for the woman; Walloon poet published in France, where he was court poet to d'Autriche^[3]
• Pietro Bembo, Gli Asolani, a dialogue on courtly love, with poems reminiscent of Boccaccio and Petrarch (see also second, revised edition 1530)

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

• February 4 – Mikolaj Rej (died 1569), Polish poet, politician and musician
• Also:
  • Lodovico Castelvetro born about this year (died 1571), Italian literary critic
  • Giovanni Pietro Astemio (died 1567), Italian, Latin-language poet^[4]
  • Nicholas Bourbon in this year or 1503 (died 1550), French court preceptor and poet
  • John Wedderburn, birth year uncertain (died 1556), Scottish religious reformer and poet
  • Nicholas Udall, born this year, according to one source,^[5] or in 1504, according to others (died 1556), English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
  • Georg Wickram (died 1562), German poet and novelist
  • Wu Cheng'en (died 1580), Chinese novelist and poet

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

• July 17 – Filippo Beroaldo (born 1453), Italian writer, editor, translator, commentator and poet in Italian and Latin^[4]
• Also:
  • Tito Vespasiano Strozzi died about this year (born 1424), according to at least some sources,^[6] 1425 according to another,^[4] Italian, Latin-language poet^[4]
  • Robert Wydow (born 1446), English poet, church musician, and religious figure

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