Latin-language poet 1478: Andrea Ammonio born about this year, one source says 1477 (died 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet Baldassarre Castiglione, sources differ on whether he was born this year or 1477 (died 1529), Italian writer and poet who also wrote verses in Latin Girolamo Fracastoro (died 1553), Italian physician, scholar, poet and atomist Gian Giorgio Trissino (died 1550), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian Surdas, born either this year or in 1479, (died sometime from 1581 to 1584), Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect 1479: June 14 – Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (died 1552), Italian scholar and poet Nicolò D'Arco (died 1546), Italian, Latin-language poet Celio Calcagnini (died 1541), Italian, Latin-language poet Zaccaria Ferreri (died 1524), Italian, Latin-language poet Surdas, born either in 1478 or this year (died sometime from 1581 to 1584), Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: 1471: Nōami (born 1397), Japanese painter and renga poet in the service of the Ashikaga shogunate Antonio Beccadelli (born 1394), Italian poet, canon lawyer, scholar, diplomat, and chronicler Sir Thomas Malory (born 1405), English writer, and author of Le Morte d'Arthur 1472: Leon Battista Alberti (born 1404), Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer Liu Jue (born 1409), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet Nezahualcoyotl (born 1402), Texcoco poet-king Janus Pannonius (born 1434), Hungarian poet especially of Humanist poetry 1474: Flavio Pantagato (birth year not known), Italian, Latin-language poet 1475: Georges Chastellain (born c. 1405 or c. 1415, French-language Burgundian chronicler and poet Masuccio Salernitano (born 1410), Italian 1477: Giannantonio Campano (born 1429), Italian, Latin-language poet 1478: Domizio Calderini (born 1446), Italian, Latin-language poet 1479: Jorge Manrique (born 1440), Spanish poet Raighu (born 1400), Apabhraṃśa poet See also Poetry 15th century in poetry 15th century in literature Notes 15th-century poetry Poetry