1300s in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events 1308 (approx.): Dante Alighieri begins to write the Divine Comedy. Works published 1303: Handlyng Synne by Robert Mannyng of Brunne, a devotional work dealing with the theory and practice of morality 1307: Guillaume Guiart, Branche des Royaux lignages, revised version completed Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1300: Chūgan Engetsu (died 1375), Japanese poet, occupies a prominent place in Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains 1304: Petrarch (died 1374), Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: 1300: Guido Cavalcanti (born 1255), Italian poet Folquet de Lunel (born 1244), troubadour from Lunel (in the modern Hérault) 1301: Asukai Gayu (born 1241), Japanese waka poet Zahed Gilani (born 1216), a Persian Sufi 1302: Guan Hanqing (born 1225), Chinese playwright and poet in the Yuan dynasty Roger-Bernard III of Foix (born 1243), the Count of