1513 in poetry

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Events

 * Gavin Douglas completed the Eneados, a complete Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid and the first full and faithful translation into any Germanic language of a major poem from classical antiquity.
 * John Skelton appointed Poet Laureate by Henry VIII of England

Great Britain

 * Anonymous, Ars amatoria, translated from the Latin of Ovid's Art of Love
 * John Lydgate, published anonymously, Troy Book, verse paraphrase of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae of 1287, in turn a Latin prose translation of the Roman de Troie (c. 1165) of Benoit de Sainte-Maure (see also The Life and Death of Hector 1614)
 * John Skelton, published anonymously, A Ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge, [sic] celebrating the defeat of the Scots at Flodden

Other

 * Mallanarya of Gubbi, Bhava Chintaratna, India
 * Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Strozii poëtae pater et filius, his complete works together with works of his son; published by Aldus Manutius, Italy

Births
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 * December 23 – Sir Thomas Smith (died 1577), English scholar, diplomat and poet

Deaths
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 * January – Hans Folz (born c. 1437), German Meistersinger
 * Henry Bradshaw (born c. 1450), English
 * Robert Fabyan (birth year not known), English chronicler and sheriff
 * Bartolomeo Fonzio (born c. 1445), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Naldo Naldi died about this year (born 1436), Italian, Latin-language poet