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1508 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1508.
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Events
- April 4 â John Lydgate's poem The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes the first book printed in Scotland, from the Chepman and Myllar Press in Edinburgh.[1]
- unknown date
- The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, as edited and expanded by Garci RodrÃguez de Montalvo (died c. 1505), is published in Castilian at Zaragoza.[2]
- Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh in Yiddish.
- Estimated date of Manuscript D of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting.[3]
New books
Prose
- Desiderius Erasmus â Adagiorum chiliades (2nd ed., Venice)
- Johannes Trithemius â De septem secundeis[4]
Drama
- Ludovico Ariosto â La Cassaria[5]
- The World and the Child (possible date)
Poetry
- William Dunbar
- The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, and Other Poems
- The Goldyn Targe
Births
- April 3 â Jean Daurat (or Dorat), French poet and scholar, member of La Pléiade (died 1588)
- April 23 â Georg Sabinus, German poet, diplomat and academic (died 1560)[6]
- June 13 â Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist philosopher, translator and playwright (died 1579)[7]
- December 21 â Thomas Naogeorgus, German Protestant reformer and Latin-language playwright (died 1563)[8]
- Unknown dates
- Marin DržiÄ, Croatian dramatist, author and poet (died 1567)
- Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (died 1575)[9]
- Primož Trubar, Slovene Protestant reformer, pioneer of Slovenian written language (died 1586)
Deaths
- February 4 â Conrad Celtes, German and Latin-language poet (born 1459)[10]
- May 13 â Martial d'Auvergne, French poet (born 1420)[11]
- June 6 â Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet, murdered (born 1471)[12]
- August 27 â Hieronymus Münzer, co-author of the Nuremberg Chronicle (born 1437/47)[13]