16th century in poetry explained
Works published
Births and deaths
England
France
French-language Swiss
Germany
German-language Swiss
Italy
Japan
- Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 (1473–1549), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai
- Hosokawa Fujitaka 細川藤孝, also known as Hosokawa Yūsai 細川幽斎 (1534–1610), a Sengoku period feudal warlord who was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shōguns; father of Hosokawa Tadaoki, an Oda clan senior general; after the 1582 Incident at Honnō-ji, he took the Buddhist tonsure and changed his name to "Yūsai"; but he remained an active force in politics, under Shōguns Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休 (1510–1552), Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
- Sōgi 宗祇 (1421–1502), Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
- Tani Soyo 谷宗養 (1526–1563), renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko
- Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige (1465–1553), renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489
Latin
- Battista Spagnoli (1447–1516), Italian[2]
- Giovanni Pontano (1429–1503), Italian
- Michael Marullus (c. 1453–1500), Italian[2]
- Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530), Italian
- Andrea Navagero (1483–1529), Italian[2]
- Girolamo Fracastoro (1483–1553), Italian
- Marcantonio Flaminio (1498–1550), Italian
- Marco Girolamo Vida (1485–1566), Italian
- Conrad Celtis (1459–1508), German
- Salmon Macrin (1490–1557), French[2]
- Joannes Secundus (1511–1536), Dutch
- Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian who also published poetry in Italian
- Joachim Du Bellay (c. 1525–1560), Frenchman who also published poetry in French
- Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), Pole who also published poetry in Polish
- Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), Polish Jesuit and poet
- Jacob Balde (1604–1668), German Jesuit and poet
Mexico
Netherlands
Ottoman Empire
(1526–1600)
(c. 1483–1556)
(c. 1500–1557)
Persian language
Poland
Portugal
Slovakia
South Asia
- Akho (1591–1659), Gujarati-language poet, Vedantist and radical[7]
- Bhalam (c. 1426–1500), Gujarati-language poet[7]
- Sant Eknath संत एकनाथ or Eknāth; the epithet "sant" संत is traditionally given to persons regarded as thoroughly saintly (1533–1599), Marathi-language poet and scholar
- Sant Tukaram संत तुकाराम (birth-year estimates range from 1577–-1609 – died 1650), Marathi-language poet
- Krishnadevaraya (died 1529), king of the Vijayanagara empire and Sanskrit-language poet
- Annamacharya శ్రీ తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య (1408–1503), mystic saint composer of the 15th century, widely regarded as the Telugu-language pada kavita pitaamaha (grand old man of simple poetry); husband of Tallapaka Tirumalamma
- Molla, also known as "Mollamamba", both popular names of Atukuri Molla (1440–1530) Telugu-language poet who wrote Telugu Ramayan; a woman
- Potana, born Bammera Pothana (1450–1510), Telugu-language poet best known for his translation of the Bhagavata Purana from Sanskrit; the book is popularly known as Pothana Bhagavatham
- Habba Khatun
- Meerabai (मीराबाई) (1498–1547), alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Hindu poet-saint, mystical poet whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India
- Gosvāmī Tulsīdās तुलसीदास, also known as "Tulasī Dāsa" and "Tulsidas" (1532–1623) Awadhi poet and philosopher
Spain
Other
- Jeong Cheol (1536–1593), Korean poet
- Hwang Jin-i (1522–1565), Korean poet
- Song Deokbong (1521-1578), Korean poet
- Judah Leone Modena, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (1571–1648), a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and poet
- Israel ben Moses Najara[8] (c. 1555 – c. 1625), Hebrew poet in Palestine
- Ali-Shir Nava'i, also known as "Nizām al-Din"; pen name "Navā'ī" Persian: نوایی, meaning "the weeper" (1441 – 1501), Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet of Chaghatai origin who was born and lived in Herat, in modern-day Afghanistan; his Chagatai language (Middle Turkic) poetry has led many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to consider him the founder of early Turkic literature, and the Uzbeks claim him as their national poet
See also
Notes and References
- [s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Olivier de la Marche|"Olivier de la Marche"]
- Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- Web site: Simon Goulart 1543-1628 . 2009-05-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204139/http://www.aidh.org/Refug/GE_refug/22.htm . 2007-09-27 .
- Web page titled "BENEDETTO CARITEO, 1450–1514", retrieved April 19, 2009. 2009-05-02.
- Book: Trece Poetas del Mundo Azteca. Miguel Leon-Portilla. Universidad Nacinal Autonoma de Mexico. 1978 . Mexico City. 2nd, 1972. es. Thirteen Poets of the Aztec World.
- Web site: The Lusiads . . 1800–1882 . 2013-08-31 .
- Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of 20th-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996,, retrieved December 10, 2008
- Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972,