1450s in poetry

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Events
1452:
 * Niccolò Perotti made Poet Laureate in Bologna by the Emperor Frederick III

Works published
1450:
 * Santillana, Bias contra Fortuna, published about this year; Spain
 * Vetteve, Guttilaya, narrative poem by a Sinhalese monk

1454:
 * Padmanabhan, Kanhadade Prabandha, Indian, Rajasthani-language

1456:
 * Francois Villon, Le Petit Testament

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

1450:
 * August 18 – Marko Marulić (died 1524), Croatian poet, philosopher and Christian humanist, known as "the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age" and the "father of the Croatian Renaissance"; He signed his works as "Marko Marulić Splićanin" ("Marko Marulić of Split"), "Marko Pečenić", "Marcus Marulus Spalatensis", or "Dalmata"
 * Hieronymus Balbus, also called "Girolamo Balbi" and "Accellini", born about this year (died c. 1530), Italian, Renaissance humanist, Latin-language poet, diplomat, and bishop Latin-language poet
 * Henry Bradshaw (died 1513), English
 * Benedetto Cariteo (died 1514), Italian
 * Gian Giacomo della Croce born about this year (died sometime after 1502), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Per Raff Lille born about this year (died c. 1500), Denmark
 * Jean Marot born about this year (born c. 1526), French poet and father of poet Clément Marot
 * Faustino Perisauli born about this year (died 1523), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Panfilo Sasso born about this year (died 1527), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Cornelio Vitelli born about this year (died c. 1525), Italian, Latin-language poet

1452
 * Francesco Negri (humanist) (died 1524 or sometime later), Italian, Latin-language poet

1453:
 * Ermolao Barbaro, sources differ on his death year, with some simply stating 1493 and others stating 1493 year and 1495 are each possible (1493),(born 1453), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Filippo Beroaldo (died 1505), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Michele Marullo, also known as "Michael Marullus" (died 1500, or about that year ), Italian, Latin-language poet

1454:
 * Gerolamo Bologni (died 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from this year to 1456, Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Angelo Poliziano, also known as "Politan" and "Angelo Ambrogini" (died 1494), Italian, Latin-language poet and humanist

1455:
 * Probo de Marianis (died 1499), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Giovanni Armonio Marso, born about this year (death year not known), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Johannes Reuchlin (died 1522), German

1456:
 * Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli (died 1524), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Nicodemo Folengo born sometime from 1454 to this year, Italian, Latin-language poet

1457:
 * Sebastian Brant born this year or in 1458 (died 1521), German
 * Šiško Menčetić (died 1527), Croatian poet and Ragusan nobleman
 * Jacopo Sannazaro, also known as "Iacopo Sannazaro" (died 1530), Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin

1458:
 * Pietro Bonomo, also known as "Petrus" (died 1546), Italian, humanist, diplomat, bishop of Trieste and Latin-language poet
 * Sebastian Brant born this year or in 1457 (died 1521), German
 * Giorgio Anselmo, born this year or sometime earlier (died 1528), Italian, Latin-language poet; grandson of another Giogrio Anselmo, an Italian mathematician and astronomer (died 1440)
 * Jacopo Sannazaro (died 1530), Italian poet,  humanist and epigrammist who also wrote in Neapolitan and Latin

1459:
 * February 1 – Conrad Celtis (died 1508), German and Latin-language poet

Deaths
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1450:
 * Olivier Basselin (born 1400), French poet

1451:
 * John Lydgate (born 1370), English monk and poet
 * Michault Taillevent died about this year (born c. 1395), French

1456:
 * Gilbert Hay, or perhaps "Sir Gilbert the Hay", who may have been a different person; last mentioned this year (born c. 1403), Scottish poet and translator
 * Juan de Mena (born 1411), Spanish poet appointed veinticuatro (one of twenty-four aldermen) of Córdoba, secretario de cartas latinas (secretary of Latin letters) and cronista real (royal chronicler)

1457:
 * Basinio da Parma (born 1425–1457), Italian, Latin-language poet

1458:
 * Inigo Lopez de Mendoza (born 1398), Spanish

1459:
 * March 3 – Ausiàs March (born 1397), Spanish, Catalan poet
 * Shōtetsu (born 1381), Japanese Waka poet during the medieval period