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