title: 1257 in poetry
text: # 1257 in poetry
  
  ## Works published
  
  * Bostan, a book of poetry, is completed by Saadi
  
  ## Births
  
  * Cecco d'Ascoli (died 1327), Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Yuan Haowen (born 1190), Chinese Sanqu poetry writer
  * Lanfranc Cigala died 1257 or 1258 (born unknown), Genoese nobleman, knight, judge, and man of letters
  