What year was the poet who wrote Isabella born?
Isabella, or the Pot of Basil Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's "Decameron" (IV, 5). It tells the tale of a young woman whose family intend to marry her to "some high noble and his olive trees", but who falls for Lorenzo, one of her brothers' employees. When the brothers learn of this they murder Lorenzo and bury his body. His ghost informs Isabella in a dream. She exhumes the body and buries the head in a pot of basil which she tends obsessively, while pining away.
Juan de Valladolid Juan de Valladolid (English: "John of Valladoid") (1420–?), also known as Juan Poeta ("John the poet"), was a Castilian poet. Born Jewish, he converted to Christianity later in life. As a Marrano, or baptized Jew, he married a Christian woman named Jamila. Some say he later married a Moorish woman in Fez.