1504 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1504.
Events[edit]
- 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.
New books[edit]
Prose[edit]
- Pomponius Gauricus – De sculptura et pictura antiquorum[1]
- Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (romance)
Drama[edit]
- Beunans Meriasek (in Cornish)
Poetry[edit]
- Pierre Gringore – Les Abus du monde
- Thomas More – Fortune Verses (c. 1504)[2]
Births[edit]
- 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)
Deaths[edit]
- 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)
References[edit]
- ^ Gregory Velazco Trianosky; Noël Carroll (3 December 2012). Beauty Unlimited. Indiana University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-253-00653-0.
- ^ Text: Retrieved 18 January 2018. Archived 11 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Dennis Poupard; Michael Lablanc; Mark Scott (2003). 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. Gale. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-7876-6352-0.
- ^ Norman Davis (1999). The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling. Oxford University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-19-283640-3.
- ^ Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward; William Leist Readwin Cates (1872). Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. Lee and Shepard. p. 348.
- ^ Giovanni Antonazzi (1985). Lorenzo Valla e la polemica sulla donazione di Costantino. Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. p. 133.