Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in which Boccus asks 847 questions and Sidrac answers them (see Sidrak and Bokkus).
Anonymous, Sir Isumbras, publication year uncertain, a romance of separation and reunion of family members, based on the Saint Eustace legend; composed in tail-rhyme in the early 14th century
Anonymous, Sir Lamwell, publication year uncertain but thought to be from this year to 1532; a version of an Authurian "fairy mistress" tale from Marie de France's Lai de Lanval, written in the second half of the 12th century
Alexander Barclay, translator, Eclogues, publication year uncertain; translated from De miseria curialium of Enea Silvio de Piccolomini (Pope Pius II)); see also 1521 and Fifth Eclogue 1518
Pietro Bembo, Italy:
Gli Asolani, a dialogue on courtly love, with poems reminiscent of Boccaccio and Petrarch; second, revised edition (see also first edition 1505)
Rime, in Italian
Girolamo Fracastoro, also known as "Fracastorius", Syphilis sive morbus gallicus ("Syphilis, or The French Disease"), an epic poem in five books about a shepherd named Syphilus; the name for syphilis is derived from the work; the poem suggests using mercury and Oil of guaiac as a cure
Jacopo Sannazaro, Sonetti e Canzoni
Antonio Tebaldeo, Di M. Antonio Tebaldeo ferrarese l'opere d'amore, published in Venice; Italy
Hans Sachs, Das Schlaraffenland, satirical, humorous anecdotes, called "Schwanke", in doggerel verse, Germany
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
November 1 – Étienne de La Boétie (died 1563), French political philosopher and sonnet writer
Baltasar del Alcázar, (died 1606), Spanish
François de Belleforest (died 1582), French poet and translator
Pey de Garros (died 1585), French Occitan language poet writing in Gascon
Jerónimo Bermúdez (died 1599), Spanish dramatist, poet, and playwright
Diogo Bernardes born about this year (died c.