1502 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1502.
Events
- June â 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 â Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro)[3]
- Shin Maha Thilawuntha â Yazawin Kyaw[4]
Drama
- Gil Vicente â Monólogo do Vaqueiro ("Monologue of the Cowboy")[5]
Poetry
- Pietro Bembo â Terzerime (published by Aldus Manutius)
- Conradus Celtis â Amores
- Baptista Mantuanus â Sylvae
- Jacopo Sannazaro â Arcadia (pirated edition)
Births
- Guillaume Bigot, French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin (died 1550)
- probable â Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)[6]
Deaths
- February â Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426)
- March 14 â 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]
- SÅgi (å®ç¥), 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)