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| 1461 |
| | | Francois Villon, recently released from prison, writes his Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past | |
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| 1462 |
| | | In keeping with his personal interest in Plato, Cosimo de' Medici founds a Platonic Academy in Florence | |
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| 1469 |
| | | Thomas Malory, in gaol somewhere in England, compiles Morte d'Arthur – an English account of the French tales of King Arthur | |
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| 1487 |
| | | Boiardo publishes a romantic epic, Orlando Innamorato, about Roland's love for a bewitching princess | |
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| 1510 |
| | | Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism | |
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| 1516 |
| | | Ariosto, in Orlando Furioso, tells of Roland's madness when he is abandoned by the pagan princess Angelica | |
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| 1524 |
| | | William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English | |
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| 1549 |
| | | The first version of the English prayer book, or Book of Common Prayer, is published with text by Thomas Cranmer | |
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| 1550 |
| | | Pierre de Ronsard publishes the first four books of his Odes | |
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| 1564 |
| | | Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months | |
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