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

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• Anonymous, The Friar and the Boy, publication year uncertain (sometime between 1510–1513); a popular fabliau; Great Britain^[1]
• Jean Lemaire de Belges, La Concorde des deux langages, referring to the French and Italian languages, urging cultural unity;^[2] Belgian Walloon poet writing in French
• John Lydgate, The Governance of Kings, also known as Secrets of the Old Philisoffres, translated from Aristotle's secreta secretorum; Lydgate's last work (see also Robert Copland's Secreta secretorum 1528); Great Britain^[1]
• Cancionero general, anthology of Spanish poetry, published by Hernando del Castillo (revised several times in the 16th century)^[3]

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

• November 15 – Joannes Secundus (died 1536), Dutch, Latin-language poet

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

• Matthias Ringmann (born 1482), German cartographer and humanist poet

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• French Renaissance literature
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