1257 in poetry

Works published

 * Bostan, a book of poetry, is completed by Saadi

Births

 * Cecco d'Ascoli (died 1327), Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet

Deaths

 * Yuan Haowen (born 1190), Chinese Sanqu poetry writer
 * Lanfranc Cigala died 1257 or 1258 (born unknown), Genoese nobleman, knight, judge, and man of letters