1505 in literature

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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) – 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

Main article: 1505 in poetry

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

Births

Margaret Roper (1505-1544)

• 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)[9]

References

1. John Flood (1 January 2006). Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1390–. ISBN 978-3-11-091274-6.
2. Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1970). Navigationi et viaggi: Venice, 1563-1606. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
3. Gorton Carruth (1993). The Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates. HarperCollins. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-06-270012-4.
4. Lesley Lewis (1998). The Thomas More Family Group Portraits After Holbein. Gracewing Publishing. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-85244-466-5.
5. Harvard University. Library (1987). Harvard Library Bulletin. Harvard University Library. p. 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. Burkhalter, A. Louis; Romain Goldron (1968). Music of the Renaissance. H. S. Stuttman Company. p. 87.
8. Talib Ghaffari (7 January 2011). "Writings of Imam Jalaluddin al-Suyuti". Maktabah Mujaddidiyah. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
9.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Veit Arnpeck". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.