1500 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1500.
Events
[edit]- December 31 – Figurae bibliae by Antonius Rampegollis is printed in Venice by Georgius Arrivabenus. This is generally accepted as the last of the end of incunables.[1]
- unknown date – John Skelton, tutor to Prince Henry (second son of King Henry VII of England, is referred to as "unum Britannicarum literarum lumen ac decus" in De Laudibus Britanniae, a Latin ode by Desiderius Erasmus, .[2]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- This is the Boke of Cokery (first known printed cookbook in English)[3]
- Hieronymus Brunschwygk – Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus (Simple book on the art of distillation)[4]
- Desiderius Erasmus – Adagia (Paris)[5]
- Johannes Trithemius – Steganographia (approximate year)[6]
Drama
[edit]- The Wakefield Master – Second Shepherds' Play (approximate year)[7]
Poetry
[edit]- Beves of Hamtoun (approximate publication date, written c. 1300)[8]
- Geoffrey Chaucer (anonymously) – Mars and Venus (approximate date of publication)[8]
- Singiraja – Maha Basavaraja Charitra
Births
[edit]- April 12 – Joachim Camerarius (the Elder), German classical scholar (died 1574)[9]
- April 23
- Alexander Ales, Scottish-born religious controversialist (died 1565)[10]
- Johann Stumpf, Swiss historical and topographical writer (died 1576)[11]
- December 6 – Nicolaus Mameranus, Luxembourg soldier and Latin-language historian and poet (died c. 1567)
- unknown dates
- Jeanne de la Font, French poet and culture patron (died 1553)
- Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (died 1566)
- probable
- Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian and composer (died 1553)
- Erasmus Alberus, German humanist, reformer and poet (died 1553)
- Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, Greek kabbalist and poet (died 1580)
- Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese writer (died 1572)[12]
- Hayâlî, Ottoman Turkish poet (died 1557)
- Nikolaus Herman, German hymnist (died 1561)
- Pier Angelo Manzolli (Marcello Palingenio Stellato), Neapolitan Christian humanist poet (died before 1551)
- Ludovico Pasquali, Dalmatian Italian poet (died 1551)[13]
- Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist (died 1582)
Deaths
[edit]- April 10 – Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Greek scholar, poet and soldier (born c. 1453; drowned)[14]
- June 23 – Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet, philosopher, courtier and magician (born 1447)[15]
- August 9 – Janus Plousiadenos, Greek Renaissance scholar and hymn-writer (born c. 1429)
- August 10 – Serafino dell'Aquila, Petrarchan poet (born 1466)[16]
- October 1 – John Alcock, bishop, politician and writer (born c.1430)[17]
- probable – Stefano Infessura, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1435)
- possible – Ieuan ap Huw Cae Llwyd, Welsh poet[18]
References
[edit]- ^ Robert James Bast; Andrew Colin Gow; Heiko Augustinus Oberman (2000). Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History : Essays Presented to Heiko A. Oberman on His 70th Birthday. Brill. p. 122. ISBN 90-04-11633-8.
- ^ "John Skelton". The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ Minaz Jooma (1995). The Alimentary Structures of Incest: Eating and Incest in Eighteenth-century English Narrative. Michigan State University. Department of English. p. 1.
- ^ William Maziere Brady (1890). Anglo-Roman Papers: I.-The English Palace in Rome : II.-The Eldest Natural Son of Charles II : III.-Memoirs of Cardinal Erskine, Papal Envoy to the Court of George III. A. Gardner. p. 89.
- ^ Jo Eldridge Carney (2001). Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-313-30574-0.
- ^ Gregory Kipper (27 October 2003). Investigator's Guide to Steganography. CRC Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-135-48638-9.
- ^ Thomas J. Garbáty (1984). Medieval English Literature. D.C. Heath. p. 881. ISBN 978-0-669-03351-9.
- ^ a b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: a Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge. A.J. Johnson & Son. 1879. p. 740.
- ^ John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Publishing Group. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8010-6123-3.
- ^ Robert W. Karrow (1993). Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: Bio-bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570 : Based on Leo Bagrow's A. Ortelii Catalogus Cartographorum. Newberry Library. p. 510. ISBN 978-0-932757-05-0.
- ^ Joaquim de Siqueira Coutinho (1964). An Outline of the History of Portuguese Culture. Saint Anthony's Press. p. 25.
- ^ Eleonora Zuliani (1935). "PASQUALI (o Pascale), Lodovico". Enciclopedia Italiana, Volume 26, Roma (in Italian). Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ Titus Lucretius Carus (1864). Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: With a translation and notes. Bell. p. 6.
- ^ Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Ruud M. Bouthoorn, Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe 2005.
- ^ Joseph Timothy Haydn (1870). Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time: For the Use of the Statesman, the Historian, and the Journalist. Moxon. p. 20.
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 245. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ Leslie Harries (ed.), Gwaith Huw Cae Llwyd ac eraill (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1953)