1248 in poetry

Events

• Lanfranc Cigala writes Quan vei far bon fag plazentier bemoaning the state of the Church
• Japanese Retired Emperor Go-Saga orders a new imperial anthology of waka poems; compiled by Fujiwara no Tameie, the new anthology, titled Shokugosen Wakashū' 続後撰和歌集, would be finished three years later, in 1251

Deaths

• Shams Tabrizi, Persian Sufi