title: 1294 in poetry
text: # 1294 in poetry
  
  ## Events
  
  * Chiaro Davanzati serves as captain of Or San Michele
  * Guittone d'Arezzo founds the Neo-Sicilian School based on the Sicilian School under Frederick II (for more detail see sonnet)
  
  ## Births
  
  * Zhu Derun (died 1365), Chinese painter and poet in Yuan Dynasty
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Busiri (born 1211), Egyptian poet
  * Guittone d'Arezzo (born 1235), founder of the Tuscan School
  * Brunetto Latini (born 1220), Florentine philosopher, poet, scholar and statesman
  