title: 1291 in poetry
text: # 1291 in poetry
  
  ## Works
  
  * Jacob van Maerlant writes his last poem Van den Lande van Oversee after the fall of Acre, Israel
  
  ## Births
  
  * Philippe de Vitry (died 1361), French composer, music theorist and poet
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Saadi Shirazi, Persian (est. - some sources suggest as early as 1283)
  