1500 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1500.

Events

• December 31 – Figurae bibliae by Antonius Rampegollis is printed in Venice by Georgius Arrivabenus. This is generally accepted as the last of the end of incunables.^[1]
• unknown date – John Skelton, tutor to Prince Henry (second son of King Henry VII of England, is referred to as "unum Britannicarum literarum lumen ac decus" in De Laudibus Britanniae, a Latin ode by Desiderius Erasmus, .^[2]

New books

Prose

• This is the Boke of Cokery (first known printed cookbook in English)^[3]
• Hieronymus Brunschwygk – Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus (Simple book on the art of distillation)^[4]
• Desiderius Erasmus – Adagia (Paris)^[5]
• Johannes Trithemius – Steganographia (approximate year)^[6]

Drama

• The Wakefield Master – Second Shepherds' Play (approximate year)^[7]

Poetry

See main article: 1500 in poetry.

• Beves of Hamtoun (approximate publication date, written c. 1300)^[8]
• Geoffrey Chaucer (anonymously) – Mars and Venus (approximate date of publication)^[8]
• Singiraja – Maha Basavaraja Charitra

Births

• April 12 – Joachim Camerarius (the Elder), German classical scholar (died 1574)^[9]
• April 23
  • Alexander Ales, Scottish-born religious controversialist (died 1565)^[10]
  • Johann Stumpf, Swiss historical and topographical writer (died 1576)^[11]
• December 6 – Nicolaus Mameranus, Luxembourg soldier and Latin-language historian and poet (died c. 1567)
• unknown dates
  • Jeanne de la Font, French poet and culture patron (died 1553)
  • Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (died 1566)
• probable
  • Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian and composer (died 1553)
  • Erasmus Alberus, German humanist, reformer and poet (died 1553)
  • Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, Greek kabbalist and poet (died 1580)
  • Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese writer (died 1572)^[12]
  • Hayâlî, Ottoman Turkish poet (died 1557)
  • Nikolaus Herman, German hymnist (died 1561)
  • Pier Angelo Manzolli (Marcello Palingenio Stellato), Neapolitan Christian humanist poet (died before 1551)
  • Ludovico Pasquali, Dalmatian Italian poet (died 1551)^[13]
  • Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist (died 1582)

Deaths

• April 10 – Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Greek scholar, poet and soldier (born c. 1453; drowned)^[14]
• June 23 – Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet, philosopher, courtier and magician (born 1447)^[15]
• August 9 – Janus Plousiadenos, Greek Renaissance scholar and hymn-writer (born c. 1429)
• August 10 – Serafino dell'Aquila, Petrarchan poet (born 1466)^[16]
• October 1 – John Alcock, bishop, politician and writer (born c.1430)^[17]
• probable – Stefano Infessura, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1435)
• possible – Ieuan ap Huw Cae Llwyd, Welsh poet^[18]

Notes and References

1. Book: Robert James Bast. Andrew Colin Gow. Heiko Augustinus Oberman. Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History : Essays Presented to Heiko A. Oberman on His 70th Birthday. 2000. Brill. 90-04-11633-8. 122.
2. Web site: John Skelton . The Cambridge History of English and American Literature . 3 . 2015-12-22.
3. Book: Minaz Jooma. The Alimentary Structures of Incest: Eating and Incest in Eighteenth-century English Narrative. 1995. Michigan State University. Department of English. 1.
4. Book: William Maziere Brady. Anglo-Roman Papers: I.-The English Palace in Rome : II.-The Eldest Natural Son of Charles II : III.-Memoirs of Cardinal Erskine, Papal Envoy to the Court of George III. 1890. A. Gardner. 89.
5. Book: Jo Eldridge Carney. Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. 2001. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-30574-0. 130.
6. Book: Gregory Kipper . Investigator's Guide to Steganography . 27 October 2003 . CRC Press . 978-1-135-48638-9 . 19.
7. Book: Thomas J. Garbáty. Medieval English Literature. 1984. D.C. Heath. 978-0-669-03351-9. 881.
8. Book: Cox, Michael . The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press . 2004 . 0-19-860634-6 . registration .
9. Book: Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: a Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge. 1879. A.J. Johnson & Son. 740.
10. Book: John McClintock. James Strong. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. 1981. Baker Publishing Group. 978-0-8010-6123-3. 138.
11. Book: Robert W. Karrow. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: Bio-bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570 : Based on Leo Bagrow's A. Ortelii Catalogus Cartographorum. 1993. Newberry Library. 978-0-932757-05-0. 510.
12. Book: Joaquim de Siqueira Coutinho. An Outline of the History of Portuguese Culture. 1964. Saint Anthony's Press. 25.
13. Web site: PASQUALI (o Pascale), Lodovico. Eleonora Zuliani. Enciclopedia Italiana, Volume 26, Roma. Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. 1935. 3 August 2020. it.
14. Book: Titus Lucretius Carus . Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: With a translation and notes . 1864 . Bell . 6.
15. [Wouter J. Hanegraaff]
16. Book: Joseph Timothy Haydn. Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time: For the Use of the Statesman, the Historian, and the Journalist. 1870. Moxon. 20.
17. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E.. Porter, S.. Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology. Third revised . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1996 . 0-521-56350-X . 245.
18. Leslie Harries (ed.), Gwaith Huw Cae Llwyd ac eraill (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1953)