# 1440s in poetry

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## 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