title: 1502 in poetry
text: # 1502 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * Stephen Hawes appointed to Valet de chambre under Henry VII of England
  * Poet Laureate John Skelton imprisoned
  
  ## Works published
  
  ### Italy
  
  * Pietro Bembo, Terzerime, published by Aldus Manutius
  * Baptista Mantuanus, Sylvae, eight volumes, Bologna; Italian, Latin-language poet
  * Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia, a pirated edition (the author officially sanctioned publication in 1504); a manuscript of the original work is dated 1489, with two eclogues and connecting prose added later, seemingly reflecting the author's distress at political developments of about 1500; Italy
  
  ### Other
  
  * Conradus Celtis, Amores, folk poem, German poet writing in Latin
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * Guillaume Bigot (died 1550), French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin
  * Benedetto Varchi, some sources say he may have been born this year or 1503, others say his birth year is 1503 (died 1565), Italian, Latin-language poet
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * February – Olivier de la Marche (born 1426), French poet and chronicler
  * Also:
     * Elisio Calenzio (born 1430), Italian, Latin-language poet
     * Jalaladdin Davani (born 1426), Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet
     * Gian Giacomo della Croce, died after this year (born c. 1450), Italian, Latin-language poet
     * Gwerful Mechain, died about this year (born c. 1460?), female Welsh erotic poet
     * Bonino Mombrizio, died 1482 or this year (born 1424), Italian, Latin-language poet
     * Octavien de Saint-Gelais (born 1468), French churchman, poet and translator
     * Domnall mac Brian Ó hÚigínn (born unknown), Irish poet
     * Sōgi 宗祇 (born 1421), Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
  