• Anonymous, King Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in the early 14th century; freely adapted from Thomas of Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie of the 12th century^[1]
• Pietro Bembo, Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua (Prose della volgar lingua), the author's most influential work, a prose treatise on writing poetry in Italian; discussing verse composition in detail, including rhyme, stress, the sounds of words, balance and variety; criticism, Italy^[2]
• William Walter, Titus and Gesippus, publication year uncertain, translated from a Latin version of Boccaccio's Decameron, Day 10, Tale 8^[1]
• John Walton, The Consolation of Philosophy, translated from Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy (see also Geoffrey Chaucer's translation of the same work, 1478 edition)^[1]
• Petrarch, edited by Allesandro Vellutello, Il Petrarco; the editor reordered the sequence of the "scattered" poems to reflect a narrative of Petrarch's life; the text would be reprinted 29 times in the 16th century; posthumous^[3]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 25 – Richard Edwardes, also spelled "Richard Edwards" (died 1566), English poet and playwright; a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and master of the singing boys
• Pir Roshan (died 1582/1585), Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual also writing in Persian and Arabic
• Jan van Casembroot (died 1568), South Holland noble and poet
• Approximate date – Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof (died 1602), German Landsknecht, baroque poet and translator

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 27 – Thomas Müntzer (born c. 1489), German theologian and poet, executed
• Jean Lemaire de Belges died about this year (born c. 1473), Walloon poet and historian who lived primarily in France
• Cornelio Vitelli (born 1450), Italian, Latin-language poet

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature