1500 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1500.
Events
- 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.{{cite book|author1=Robert James Bast|author2=Andrew Colin Gow|author3=Heiko Augustinus Oberman|title=Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History : Essays Presented to Heiko A. Oberman on His 70th Birthday|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hrmdtE6EoKUC&pg=PA122|year=2000|publisher=Brill|isbn=90-04-11633-8|pages=122}}
- 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, .{{Cite web |title=John Skelton |url=http://www.bartleby.com/213/0406.html |work=The Cambridge History of English and American Literature |volume=3 |accessdate=2015-12-22}}
New books
=Prose=
- This is the Boke of Cokery (first known printed cookbook in English){{cite book|author=Minaz Jooma|title=The Alimentary Structures of Incest: Eating and Incest in Eighteenth-century English Narrative|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3FkhmAanswC|year=1995|publisher=Michigan State University. Department of English|page=1}}
- Hieronymus Brunschwygk – Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus (Simple book on the art of distillation){{cite book|author=William Maziere Brady|title=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2gugAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA89|year=1890|publisher=A. Gardner|pages=89}}
- Desiderius Erasmus – Adagia (Paris){{cite book|author=Jo Eldridge Carney|title=Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4TBFjimrHtQC&pg=PA130|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30574-0|pages=130}}
- Johannes Trithemius – Steganographia (approximate year){{cite book |author=Gregory Kipper |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lTR6AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |title=Investigator's Guide to Steganography |date=27 October 2003 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1-135-48638-9 |pages=19}}
=Drama=
=Poetry=
{{main|1500 in poetry}}
- Beves of Hamtoun (approximate publication date, written c. 1300){{Cite book |editor=Cox, Michael |title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-860634-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
- Geoffrey Chaucer (anonymously) – Mars and Venus (approximate date of publication)
- Singiraja – Maha Basavaraja Charitra
Births
- April 12 – Joachim Camerarius (the Elder), German classical scholar (died 1574){{cite book|title=Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: a Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYtRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA740|year=1879|publisher=A.J. Johnson & Son|pages=740}}
- April 23
- Alexander Ales, Scottish-born religious controversialist (died 1565){{cite book|author1=John McClintock|author2=James Strong|title=Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Ac4AQAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Baker Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8010-6123-3|page=138}}
- Johann Stumpf, Swiss historical and topographical writer (died 1576){{cite book|author=Robert W. Karrow|title=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuMRAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Newberry Library|isbn=978-0-932757-05-0|page=510}}
- 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){{cite book|author=Joaquim de Siqueira Coutinho|title=An Outline of the History of Portuguese Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BrzrAAAAMAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Saint Anthony's Press|page=25}}
- 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){{cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lodovico-pasquali|author=Eleonora Zuliani|title=PASQUALI (o Pascale), Lodovico|work=Enciclopedia Italiana, Volume 26, Roma|publisher=Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana|date=1935|access-date=3 August 2020|language=it}}
- Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist (died 1582)
Deaths
- April 10 – Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Greek scholar, poet and soldier (born c. 1453; drowned){{Cite book |author=Titus Lucretius Carus |title=Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: With a translation and notes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-hmH2pcEuEC&pg=PA6 |year=1864 |publisher=Bell |pages=6}}
- June 23 – Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet, philosopher, courtier and magician (born 1447)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.
- August 9 – Janus Plousiadenos, Greek Renaissance scholar and hymn-writer (born c. 1429)
- August 10 – Serafino dell'Aquila, Petrarchan poet (born 1466){{cite book|author=Joseph Timothy Haydn|title=Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time: For the Use of the Statesman, the Historian, and the Journalist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j_RJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA20|year=1870|publisher=Moxon|pages=20}}
- October 1 – John Alcock, bishop, politician and writer (born c.1430){{cite book |author=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E.|author3=Porter, S.|author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |page=245}}
- probable – Stefano Infessura, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1435)
- possible – Ieuan ap Huw Cae Llwyd, Welsh poetLeslie Harries (ed.), Gwaith Huw Cae Llwyd ac eraill (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1953)
References
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