1517 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino ("The [Golden] Ass") Teofilo Folengo, writing under the pen name "Merlin Cocaio", Opus Maccaronicum, collection of satiric poems, including Baldo; a blend of Latin with various Italian dialects in hexameter verse; many subsequent editions Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, written in 1184, a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books; "edito princeps" (first printed edition) published this year by Josse Badius Ascensius Francysk Skaryna, The Psalter, Old Belarusian language, printed August 6 by Skaryna at his press in Prague, one of the first book printers in Eastern Europe John Skelton, The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng, comic poem about tavern life; Great Britain Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans (died 1582), French humanist poet Bargeo (died 1596), Italian, Latin-language poet Approximate date Robert Crowley (died 1588), English stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (died 1547), English aristocrat and poet Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: August – Andrea Ammonio (born 1478), Italian, Latin-language poet Gerolamo Bologni (born 1454), Italian, Latin-language poet Cornelio Paolo Amalteo (born c. 1460), Italian, Latin-language poet Girolamo Amaseo (born 1467), Italian, Latin-language poet Approximate date – Fausto Andrelino (born c.