1504 in literature

Events

• Unknown dates
  • Walloon poet Jean Lemaire de Belges joins the court of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy.
  • Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.

New books

Prose

• Pomponius Gauricus – De sculptura et pictura antiquorum
• Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (romance)

Drama

• Beunans Meriasek (in Cornish)

Poetry

Main article: 1504 in poetry

• Pierre Gringore – Les Abus du monde
• Thomas More – Fortune Verses (c. 1504)

Births

• October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligrapher and poet (died 1551)
• November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi ("Cinthio"), Italian novelist and poet (died 1573)
• c. December – Nicholas Udall, English schoolmaster playwright (died 1556)
• unknown date – Ranabai, Hindu mystical poet (died 1570)

Deaths

• August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman, author and recipient of some of the Paston Letters (born 1444)
• September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (born 1467)
• unknown dates
  • Petrus Haedus (Pietro Cavretto), Italian priest and writer (born 1427)
  • Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author (born c. 1450)

References

References

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2. Text: [https://www.thomasmorestudies.org/docs/Book_Fortune.pdf Retrieved 18 January 2018.] {{Webarchive. link. (11 December 2016)
3. (2003). "Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers". Gale.
4. Norman Davis. (1999). "The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling". Oxford University Press.
5. (1872). "Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical". Lee and Shepard.
6. Giovanni Antonazzi. (1985). "Lorenzo Valla e la polemica sulla donazione di Costantino". Ed. di Storia e Letteratura.