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) â Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps
- Stephen Hawes â The Temple of Glass
- Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500) â Crater Hermetis
- Pierre Le Baud (died September 29) â Cronique des roys et princes de Bretaigne armoricane (completed)
- Primer of Claude of France
Poetry
- Pietro Bembo â Gli Asolani
- Jean Lemaire de Belges â Epîtres de l'amant vert
Births
- February 4 â MikoÅaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician (died 1569)[3]
- Unknown date â 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 â Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Italian Latin-language poet (born c. 1424)[5]
- September 29 â Pierre Le Baud, French historian (born c.1450)[6]
- October 4 (buried) â 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]
