1513 in poetry

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• Gavin Douglas completed the Eneados, a complete Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid and the first full and faithful translation into any Germanic language of a major poem from classical antiquity.
• John Skelton appointed Poet Laureate by Henry VIII of England

• Anonymous, Ars amatoria, translated from the Latin of Ovid's Art of Love^[1]
• John Lydgate, published anonymously, Troy Book, verse paraphrase of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae of 1287, in turn a Latin prose translation of the Roman de Troie (c. 1165) of Benoit de Sainte-Maure (see also The Life and Death of Hector 1614)^[1]
• John Skelton, published anonymously, A Ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge, celebrating the defeat of the Scots at Flodden^[1]

• Mallanarya of Gubbi, Bhava Chintaratna, India
• Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Strozii poëtae pater et filius, his complete works together with works of his son; published by Aldus Manutius, Italy

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

• December 23 – Sir Thomas Smith (died 1577), English scholar, diplomat and poet

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

• January – Hans Folz (born c. 1437), German Meistersinger
• Henry Bradshaw (born c. 1450), English
• Robert Fabyan (birth year not known), English chronicler and sheriff
• Bartolomeo Fonzio (born c. 1445), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]
• Naldo Naldi died about this year (born 1436), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]

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