1502 in literature

Events

• June – 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.
• 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.

New books

Prose

• Niccolò Machiavelli – Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro)
• Shin Maha Thilawuntha – Yazawin Kyaw

Drama

• Gil Vicente – Monólogo do Vaqueiro ("Monologue of the Cowboy")

Poetry

Main article: 1502 in poetry

• Pietro Bembo – Terzerime (published by Aldus Manutius)
• Conradus Celtis – Amores
• Baptista Mantuanus – Sylvae
• Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (pirated edition)

Births

• Guillaume Bigot, French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin (died 1550)
• probable – Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)

Deaths

• February – Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426)
• March 14 – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian and travel writer (born c. 1441)
• unknown dates
  • Jalaladdin Davani, Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet (born 1426)
  • Henry Medwall, English dramatist (born c. 1462)
  • Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (born 1468)
  • Sōgi (宗祇), Japanese Zen monk and renga poet (born 1421)
• probable
  • Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (born c. 1460)
  • Bonino Mombrizio, Milanese lawyer, bureaucrat, philologist, humanist, editor of ancient writings and poet in Latin (born 1424)

References

References

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3. Niccolò Machiavelli. (22 January 2017). "Delphi Collected Works of Niccolò Machiavelli (Illustrated)". Delphi Classics.
4. Patrick Arthur Pranke. (2004). "The "Treatise on the Lineage of Elders" (Vaṃsadīpanī): Monastic Reform and the Writing of Buddhist History in Eighteenth-century Burma". University of Michigan.
5. Constantin C. Stathatos. (1 September 2018). "A Gil Vicente Bibliography (2005–2015)". Rowman & Littlefield.
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7. (17 December 2014). "Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History: Volume 6. Western Europe (1500-1600)". BRILL.
8. Ian Ousby. (23 February 1996). "The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English". Cambridge University Press.
9. Thomas Adolphus Trollope. (1841). "A Summer in Western France". Henry Colburn, Publisher.
10. Paul S. Atkins. (28 February 2017). "Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet". University of Hawaii Press.
11. John T. Koch. (2012). "The Celts: History, Life, and Culture". ABC-CLIO.