1507 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1507.
Events
- August 26 â Following the death of Jean Molinet (see Deaths section), Jean Lemaire de Belges is appointed historiographer to the court of Charles, Duke of Burgundy.[1]
- September 15 â King James IV grants Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar a patent to found the first printing press in Scotland.[2]
New books
Prose
- Matthias Ringmann (probably) â Cosmographiae Introductio (to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's globe and map)[3]
- Francesco Spinacino â Intabollatura de lauto (earliest known published scores for lute)
Poetry
- Jean Lemaire de Belges â Les Chansons de Namur[4]
- Baptista Mantuanus[5]
- Mantuan Georgius
- Obiurgatio cum exortatione ad capienda arma contra infideles ad Potentatos Christianos (Charge and exhortation over the arms of infidels against Christian potentates)
- Parthenese
- Jean Marot â Le Voyage de Gênes[4]
Births
- January 25 â Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (died 1568)
- April 13 â Konrad Hubert, German religious reformer and hymn writer (died 1577)
- June 6 â Annibale Caro, Italian poet and translator (died 1566)
Deaths
- July 5 â (Petrus) Crinitus (Pietro Crinito), Florentine Italian humanist scholar and Latin-language poet (born 1474)
- August 23 â Jean Molinet, French Burgundian poet, chronicler and composer (born 1435)[6]
- November 6 â Pietro Casola, travel writer (born 1427)[7]