Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Robert Henryson's cycle The Morall Fabillis probably composed in the 1480s; earliest datable manuscripts of John Barbour's Scottish chivalric epic, Brus, also in this decade.
1480:
1481:
Luigi Pulci, Morgante, a 23-canto version (see also 1473, 1482 and the final Morgante Maggiore 1483); Italy
1482:
Luigi Pulci, Morgante, a 23-canto version (see also 1473, 1481 and the final, 28-canto Morgante Maggiore 1483); Italy
1483:
Geoffrey Chaucer, English, all posthumously published:
The House of Fame, edited by William Caxton, an unfinished dream-poem; Caxton wrote the 12-line conclusion
Troilus and Criseyde, published anonymously, publication year uncertain
John Gower, Confessio Amantis, written about 1390
Jami, Yusuf u Zulaikha ("Joseph and Zulaikha"), Persian
John Lydgate, , written at the request of Henry V of England; a very popular poem, with many manuscript copies extant in modern times; Great Britain
Luigi Pulci, Morgante, sometimes also called Morgante Maggiore (the "Greater Morgante", the name give to the complete 28 canto edition) published in final form this year (see also the shorter versions published in 1473, 1481 and 1482); Italy
1484:
Shin Maha Rahtathara, Bhuridat Lingagyi, Burma
1485:
1486:
1487:
Alaoddoule Bakhtishah Samarqandi Daulatshah, Tazkerat Osh-sho-Ara ("The Record of Poets"), Persian literary history (scholarship)
Blind Harry, The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace, long "romantic biographical" poem, probably created and published some time in the decade up to this year
1488:
Sogi, Poem of One Hundred Links Composed by Three Poets at Minase, Japan
1489:
François Villon, Le Grant Testament Villon et le petit. Son codicille.