1507 in literature

Events

• August 26 – Following the death of Jean Molinet (see Deaths section), Jean Lemaire de Belges is appointed historiographer to the court of Charles, Duke of Burgundy.
• September 15 – King James IV grants Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar a patent to found the first printing press in Scotland.

New books

Prose

• Matthias Ringmann (probably) – Cosmographiae Introductio (to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's globe and map)
• Francesco Spinacino – ** (earliest known published scores for lute)

Poetry

Main article: 1507 in poetry

• Jean Lemaire de Belges – Les Chansons de Namur
• Baptista Mantuanus
  • 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 – Le Voyage de Gênes

Births

• January 25 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (died 1568)
• April 13 – Konrad Hubert, German religious reformer and hymn writer (died 1577)
• June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and translator (died 1566)

Deaths

• July 5 – (Petrus) Crinitus (Pietro Crinito), Florentine Italian humanist scholar and Latin-language poet (born 1474)
• August 23 – Jean Molinet, French Burgundian poet, chronicler and composer (born 1435)
• November 6 – Pietro Casola, travel writer (born 1427)

References

References

1. Michael F. O. Jenkins. (1980). "Artful Eloquence: Jean Lemaire de Belges and the Rhetorical Tradition". U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages.
2. The Register Of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 15 September 1507. Scottish National Archives.
3. Chet Van Duzer. (9 October 2019). "Martin Waldseemüller's 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends". Springer Nature.
4. "The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French". Oxford University Press.
5. Mantuanus, Baptista. (1911). "The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus". The Johns Hopkins Press.
6. David Fallows. (2009). "Josquin". Brepols.
7. (1907). "Canon Pietro Casola's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Year 1494". Manchester University Press.