1502 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1502.

Events

• June – England's Poet Laureate John Skelton is believed to have been tried, in a case brought by the London Prior of St Bartholomew's, and subsequently imprisoned, possibly at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey.^[1]
• unknown dates
  • Aldine Press editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus' Histories (in Greek and Italian parallel text) and Sophocles are published in Venice.
  • The English poet Stephen Hawes is appointed Groom of the Chamber to King Henry VII of England.^[2]

New books

Prose

• Niccolò Machiavelli – Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro)^[3]
• Shin Maha Thilawuntha – Yazawin Kyaw^[4]

Drama

• Gil Vicente – Monólogo do Vaqueiro ("Monologue of the Cowboy")^[5]

Poetry

See main article: 1502 in poetry.

• Pietro Bembo – Terzerime (published by Aldus Manutius)
• Conradus Celtis – Amores
• Baptista Mantuanus – Sylvae
• Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (pirated edition)

Births

• Guillaume Bigot, French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin (died 1550)
• probable – Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)^[6]

Deaths

• February – Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426)
• March 14 – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian and travel writer (born c. 1441)^[7]
• unknown dates
  • Jalaladdin Davani, Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet (born 1426)
  • Henry Medwall, English dramatist (born c. 1462)^[8]
  • Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (born 1468)^[9]
  • Sōgi (宗祇), Japanese Zen monk and renga poet (born 1421)^[10]
• probable
  • Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (born c. 1460)^[11]
  • Bonino Mombrizio, Milanese lawyer, bureaucrat, philologist, humanist, editor of ancient writings and poet in Latin (born 1424)

Notes and References

1. Book: William Nelson . John Skelton, laureate . 1 January 1964 . Russell & Russell . 77.
2. Book: Arthur F. Kinney. David W. Swain. Eugene D. Hill. William A. Long. Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. 17 November 2000. Routledge. 978-1-136-74530-0. 332.
3. Book: Niccolò Machiavelli. Delphi Collected Works of Niccolò Machiavelli (Illustrated). 22 January 2017. Delphi Classics. 978-1-78656-065-0. 303.
4. Book: Patrick Arthur Pranke. The "Treatise on the Lineage of Elders" (Vaṃsadīpanī): Monastic Reform and the Writing of Buddhist History in Eighteenth-century Burma. 2004. University of Michigan. 978-0-496-69378-8. 203.
5. Book: Constantin C. Stathatos. A Gil Vicente Bibliography (2005–2015). 1 September 2018. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-1-61146-277-7. 1.
6. Book: Philip Ward. The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. 1978. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-866114-6. 572.
7. Book: David Thomas . John A. Chesworth . Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History: Volume 6. Western Europe (1500-1600) . 17 December 2014 . BRILL . 978-90-04-28111-0 . 605.
8. Book: Ian Ousby . The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English . 23 February 1996 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-43627-4 . 255.
9. Book: Thomas Adolphus Trollope . A Summer in Western France . 1841 . Henry Colburn, Publisher . 291.
10. Book: Paul S. Atkins. Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet. 28 February 2017. University of Hawaii Press. 978-0-8248-5870-4. 188.
11. Book: John T. Koch . The Celts: History, Life, and Culture . 2012 . ABC-CLIO . 978-1-59884-964-6 . 400.