1265 in poetry explained

Works published

• Shokukokin Wakashū (続古今和歌集, "Collection of Ancient and Modern Times Continued") edited by Fujiwara no Tameie, Fujiwara no Motoie, Fujiwara no Ieyoshi, Fujiwara no Yukiee and Fujiwara no Mitsutoshi: a twenty-volume imperial anthology consisting of 1,925 Japanese waka ordered in 1259 by the Retired Emperor Go-Saga.^[1]
• Book of Aneirin (Welsh) written (or more probably copied) about this date.

Births

• c. June 1: Dante Alighieri (died 1321), Italian poet of the Middle Ages, author of Divine Comedy^[2]

Deaths

• Philippe de Rémi (born 1210), Old French poet and trouvère^[3]

Events

See main article: 1265.

Notes and References

1. Hulvey, S. Yumiko. "Ben No Naishi." In Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Edited by Chieko I. Mulhern. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. 20.
2. Pelikan, Jaroslav. "The Otherworldly World of the Paradiso." In Dante Alighieri. Edited by Harold Bloom. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2004. 162.
3. Speer, Mary B. "Beaumanoir, Philippe de Remi, sire de (ca. 1250-1296)." In Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Richard K. Emmerson. New York: Routledge, 2006. 59.