1513 in poetry

• 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 ==Works published==

===Great Britain=== • Anonymous, Ars amatoria, translated from the Latin of Ovid's Art of Love • 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) • John Skelton, published anonymously, celebrating the defeat of the Scots at Flodden Other • 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 ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • December 23 – Sir Thomas Smith (died 1577), English scholar, diplomat and poet ==Deaths==

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 • Naldo Naldi died about this year (born 1436), Italian, Latin-language poet ==See also==