1504 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1504.

Events

Unknown dates
- Walloon poet Jean Lemaire de Belges joins the court of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy.
- Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.

See main article: 1504 in poetry.

October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligrapher and poet (died 1551)
November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi ("Cinthio"), Italian novelist and poet (died 1573)
c. December – Nicholas Udall, English schoolmaster playwright (died 1556)^[3]
unknown date – Ranabai, Hindu mystical poet (died 1570)

August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman, author and recipient of some of the Paston Letters (born 1444)^[4]
September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (born 1467)^[5]
unknown dates
- Petrus Haedus (Pietro Cavretto), Italian priest and writer (born 1427)^[6]
- Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author (born c. 1450)

Book: Gregory Velazco Trianosky. Noël Carroll. Beauty Unlimited. 3 December 2012. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-00653-0. 157.
Text: Retrieved 18 January 2018.
Book: Dennis Poupard . Michael Lablanc . Mark Scott . Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers . 2003 . Gale . 978-0-7876-6352-0 . 298.
Book: Norman Davis . The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling . 1999 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-283640-3 . 259.
Book: Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward. William Leist Readwin Cates. Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. 1872. Lee and Shepard. 348.
Book: Giovanni Antonazzi . Lorenzo Valla e la polemica sulla donazione di Costantino . 1985 . Ed. di Storia e Letteratura . 133.