1470 and about 1490 (died 1535), Italian, Latin-language poet; sources differ on his birth year, with some stating 1470, others giving "c. 1480" and another c. 1490 Juan Boscan, original Catalan name: "Joan Boscà Almogàver", born about this year (died 1542), Catalan poet who wrote in Spanish Cristobal de Castillejo born about this year (died 1550), Spanish Sir David Lindsay (died c. 1555), Scottish Jean Salmon Macrin (died 1557), French, Latin-language poet Francesco Pittiani, born about this year (died 1552), Italian, Latin-language poet Giuseppe Sporeni, born about this year (died after 1562), Italian, Latin-language poet 1491: November 8 – Teofilo Folengo, (died 1544), Italian poet who wrote in Italian, Latin and a Macaronic style mixing the two Bach Van, also known as "Nguyen Bin Khiem", Vietnamese poet Latifî, also known as Kastamonulu Latifî Çelebi, Ottoman poet and bibliographer Mellin de Saint-Gelais (died 1558), French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France 1492: Pietro Aretino (died 1556), Italian poet and playwright Antoine Héroët, poète et clerc français, mort vers 1567. Marguerite de Navarre, also known as "Marguerite of Angoulême" and "Margaret of Navarre" (died 1549), French queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre; patron of humanists and reformers, author, playwright and poet 1493: September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola (died c. 1545), Italian Anna Bijns (died 1575), Dutch Ján Silván (born 1573), Slovak Bernardo Tasso (died 1569), Italian 1494: November 5 – Hans Sachs (born 1576), German 1495: March 6 – Luigi Alamanni (died 1556), Italian poet and statesman Francisco Sa de Miranda (died 1558), Portuguese Fuzûlî, also known as "Mehmed ibn Suleyman", Turkish Suleiman the Magnificent born about this year (died 1566), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet 1496: November 23 – Clément Marot (died 1544), French Lazare de Baïf (died 1547), French poet, diplomat and humanist Lorenzo Gambara, born about this year (died 1586), Italian, Latin-language poet Richard Maitland (died 1586), Scottish Girolamo Muzio (died 1575), Italian, Latin-language poet Nawade I, Burmese Adam Reusner born sometime from 1471 to this year (died sometime from 1563 to 1582), German Johann Walter (died 1570), German poet and composer Lu Zhi (died 1576), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet 1497: Francesco Berni born about this year, according to some sources, others say 1498 (died 1535), Italian writer and poet Philipp Melanchthon (died 1560), German professor, theologian and poet 1498: Francesco Berni born this year, according to some sources,