title: 1440s in poetry
text: # 1440s in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1442 – Enea Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, arrives at the court of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, in Vienna, who names him imperial poet.
  * 1445 – Printing press developed in Europe
  
  ## Works published
  
  1445:
  
  * Cancionero de Baena, the first collection of Castilian lyrics, Spain
  
  1449:
  
  * Amoryus and Cleopes, poem by John Metham, English adaptation of the Pyramus and Thisbe narrative from Ovid‘s Metamorphoses
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  1440:
  
  * Lorenzo de' Medici, born January 1 (died 1492), Italian banker, politician, patron of the arts and poet who wrote in his native Tuscan language
  * Martial d'Auvergne (died 1500), French
  * Hans Folz born sometime from 1435 to this year (died 1513), German
  * Blind Harry, also known as "Henry the Minstrel", born about this year (died 1492), Scottish makar (poet)
  * Kabir (died 1518), mystic poet and saint of India
  * Lorenzo Lippi (of Cole) (died 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Jorge Manrique (died 1479), Spanish poet
  * Paolo Marsi (died 1484), Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Molla, also known as "Mollamamba", both popular names of Atukuri Molla (died 1530), Indian poet who wrote Telugu Ramayan; a woman
  * Ludovico Pontico born about this year (died 1520), Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Giorgio Sisgoreo born about this year (died c. 1510), Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Francesco Uberti (humanist) (died 1518), Italian, Latin-language poet
  
  1441:
  
  * Mir Ali Shir Nava'i (died 1501), Persian or Turkish poet and scholar
  
  1442:
  
  * Amerigo Corsini (died 1501), Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Pietro Antonio Piatti born about this year (died after 1508), Italian, Latin-language poet
  
  1443:
  
  * Matteo Canale (died 1503), Italian, Latin-language poet
  
  1444:
  
  * Pandolfo Collenuccio (died 1504), Italian, Latin-language poet
  
  1445:
  
  * Cantalicio (died 1515), Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Bartolomeo Fonzio born about this year (died 1513), Italian, Latin-language poet
  
  1446:
  
  * Domizio Calderini (died 1478), Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Ippolita Maria Sforza (died 1484), Italian noblewoman and writer
  * Robert Wydow (died 1505), English poet, church musician, and religious figure
  
  1447:
  
  * Baptista Mantuanus, also known as "Battista Mantovano" and "Johannes Baptista Spagnolo" (died 1516), Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin-language poet
  
  1448:
  
  * Johannes von Soest (died 1506), German composer, theorist and poet
  
  1449:
  
  * Quinto Emiliano Cimbriaco born about this year (died 1499), Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Antonio Geraldini born about this year (died 1489), Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Aldo Manuzio (died 1515), Italian, Latin-language poet
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  1440:
  
  * Cuacuauhtzin (born 1410), Aztec lord and poet in the Pre-Columbian nahua world
  * Nund Reshi (born 1377), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
  
  1442:
  
  * Nguyễn Trãi (born 1388), Vietnamese Confucian scholar, poet, politician and tactician
  
  1443:
  
  * Tomas af Strangnas, Swedish
  
  1444:
  
  * Andreu Febrer died about this year (born c. 1375), Catalan Spanish translator of the Divine Comedy
  
  1448:
  
  * Vidyapati, also known as Vidyapati Thakur and called Maithil Kavi Kokil "the poet cuckoo of Maithili", died about this year (born c. 1352), Indian, Maithili-language poet and Sanskrit writer
  