1460s in poetry

Events

• 1462: 10 September – Robert Henryson in Scotland is enrolled as a teacher in the recently founded University of Glasgow.
• 1463: January - French poet François Villon is reprieved from hanging but never heard of again.

Works published

• François Villon, Le Grand Testament, lyric poem; France consisting of 173 stanzas containing many ballads, or rondeaux, including "Ballade des dames du Temps Jadis"

• Matteo Maria Boiardo, Carmina de Laudibus Estensium, Italy

• Jami, Haft Owrang, collection of seven idylls ; Afghanistan poet who wrote in Persian

Births

• Cornelio Paolo Amalteo born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Alessandro Cortesi, Italian, Latin-language poet
• William Dunbar, born about this year, Scottish
• Robert Henryson, year uncertain, Scottish poet who flourished from this year until 1500
• Gwerful Mechain born about this year, Welsh erotic poet, a woman
• John Skelton, English

• February 6 - Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright

• Robert Henryson, Scottish poet who flourished from about this year until roughly 1500
• John Skelton born about this year, English
• Fausto Andrelino born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Lope de Vega, Spain

• C. Aurelio Cambini, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Antonio Tebaldeo, Italian poet who wrote in both Italian and Latin

• Giannantonio Flaminio, Italian, Latin-language poet

• September 11 - Bernardo Accolti, Italian
• Girolamo Carbone born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Serafino Ciminelli, also known as "Serafino Aquilano", Italian poet, singer, author and actor
• Cassandra Fedele, born about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Biernat of Lublin Polish: "Biernat z Lublina", born about this year, Polish
• Gil Vicente born about this year, Portuguese poet and playwright
• Yamazaki Sōkan, Japanese renga and haikai poet

• Girolamo Amaseo, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator

• July 12 - Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, musician and playwright
• Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator

• Giacomo Bon, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian philosopher, writer, poet, musician, and politician
• Francesco Di Natale, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Giovanni Francesco Pico, Italian, Latin-language poet

Deaths

• Martin le Franc, French poet of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance
• Krittibas Ojha, medieval Bengali poet

• Azari Tusi, Persian poet

• March 6 - Saint Catherine of Bologna, Italian saint, abbess, visionary, calligrapher, miniaturist and poet
• François Villon died sometime after January 5, French poet, thief and vagabond

• January 5 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French
• Pierre Michault

• Ubertino Pusculo died about this year, Italian, Latin-language poet