1505 in literature

Events

• Unknown date
  • Thomas Murner is "crowned" Poet Laureate to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • Giovanni Battista Ramusio becomes secretary to Alvise (or Aloisio) Mocenigo, member of the patrician Mocenigo family.

New books

Prose

• Georges Chastellain (died 1475) – Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps
• Stephen Hawes – The Temple of Glass
• Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500) – Crater Hermetis
• Pierre Le Baud (died September 29) – Cronique des roys et princes de Bretaigne armoricane (completed)
• Primer of Claude of France

Poetry

Main article: 1505 in poetry

• Pietro Bembo – Gli Asolani
• Jean Lemaire de Belges – Epîtres de l'amant vert

Births

• February 4 – Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician (died 1569)
• Unknown date – Margaret Roper, English writer and translator, daughter of Thomas More (died 1544)
• 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 – Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Italian Latin-language poet (born c. 1424)
• September 29 – Pierre Le Baud, French historian (born c.1450)
• October 4 (buried) – Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician and cleric (born 1446)
• Unknown date
  • Adam of Fulda, German musical writer (born c. 1445)
  • Al-Suyuti, Egyptian religious scholar, juristic expert, teacher and Islamic theologian (born c. 1445)
  • Veit Arnpeck, Bavarian historian (born 1440)

References

References

1. John Flood. (1 January 2006). "Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook". Walter de Gruyter.
2. Giovanni Battista Ramusio. (1970). "Navigationi et viaggi: Venice, 1563-1606". Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
3. Gorton Carruth. (1993). "The Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates". HarperCollins.
4. Lesley Lewis. (1998). "The Thomas More Family Group Portraits After Holbein". Gracewing Publishing.
5. Harvard University. Library. (1987). "Harvard Library Bulletin". Harvard University Library.
6. "Pierre Le Baud", in Alphonse-Victor Angot, Ferdinand Gaugain, Dictionnaire historique, topographique et biographique de la Mayenne, Goupil, 1900-1910, vol. IV, p. 537.
7. (1968). "Music of the Renaissance". H. S. Stuttman Company.
8. Talib Ghaffari. (7 January 2011). "Writings of Imam Jalaluddin al-Suyuti". Maktabah Mujaddidiyah.
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