1505 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1505.

Events

• Unknown date
  • Thomas Murner is "crowned" Poet Laureate to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.^[1]
  • Giovanni Battista Ramusio becomes secretary to Alvise (or Aloisio) Mocenigo, member of the patrician Mocenigo family.^[2]

New books

Prose

• Georges Chastellain (died 1475) – French: Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps
• Stephen Hawes – The Temple of Glass
• Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500) – Crater Hermetis
• Pierre Le Baud (died September 29) – Cronique des roys et princes de Bretaigne armoricane (completed)
• Primer of Claude of France

Poetry

See main article: 1505 in poetry.

• Pietro Bembo – Gli Asolani
• Jean Lemaire de Belges – Epîtres de l'amant vert

Births

• February 4 – Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician (died 1569)^[3]
• Unknown date – Margaret Roper, English writer and translator, daughter of Thomas More (died 1544)^[4]
• Approximate year
  • Nicholas Bourbon, French court preceptor and poet (died 1550)
  • Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic (died 1571)
  • John Wedderburn, Scottish religious reformer and poet (died 1556)
  • Hugh Weston, English churchman and academic (died 1556)
  • Georg Wickram, German poet and novelist (died before 1562)
  • Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died c. 1580)

Deaths

• August 30 – Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Italian Latin-language poet (born c. 1424)^[5]
• September 29 – Pierre Le Baud, French historian (born c.1450)^[6]
• October 4 (buried) – Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician and cleric (born 1446)
• Unknown date
  • Adam of Fulda, German musical writer (born c. 1445)^[7]
  • Al-Suyuti, Egyptian religious scholar, juristic expert, teacher and Islamic theologian (born c. 1445)^[8]
  • Veit Arnpeck, Bavarian historian (born 1440)

Notes and References

1. Book: John Flood. Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. 1 January 2006. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-091274-6. 1390–.
2. Book: Giovanni Battista Ramusio. Navigationi et viaggi: Venice, 1563-1606. 1970. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
3. Book: Gorton Carruth. The Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates. 1993. HarperCollins. 978-0-06-270012-4. 229.
4. Book: Lesley Lewis. The Thomas More Family Group Portraits After Holbein. 1998. Gracewing Publishing. 978-0-85244-466-5. 6.
5. Book: Harvard University. Library. Harvard Library Bulletin. 1987. Harvard University Library. 141.
6. "Pierre Le Baud", in Alphonse-Victor Angot, Ferdinand Gaugain, Dictionnaire historique, topographique et biographique de la Mayenne, Goupil, 1900-1910, vol. IV, p. 537.
7. Book: Burkhalter, A. Louis. Romain Goldron. Music of the Renaissance. 1968. H. S. Stuttman Company. 87.
8. Web site: Writings of Imam Jalaluddin al-Suyuti. Maktabah Mujaddidiyah. 23 November 2013. Talib Ghaffari. 7 January 2011.