1508 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1508.
Events[edit]
- April 4 – John Lydgate's poem The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes the first book printed in Scotland, from the Chepman and Myllar Press in Edinburgh.[1]
- unknown date
- The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (died c. 1505), is published in Castilian at Zaragoza.[2]
- Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh in Yiddish.
- Estimated date of Manuscript D of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting.[3]
New books[edit]
Prose[edit]
- Desiderius Erasmus – Adagiorum chiliades (2nd ed., Venice)
- Johannes Trithemius – De septem secundeis[4]
Drama[edit]
- Ludovico Ariosto – La Cassaria[5]
- The World and the Child (possible date)
Poetry[edit]
- William Dunbar
- The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, and Other Poems
- The Goldyn Targe
Births[edit]
- April 3 – Jean Daurat (or Dorat), French poet and scholar, member of La Pléiade (died 1588)
- April 23 – Georg Sabinus, German poet, diplomat and academic (died 1560)[6]
- June 13 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist philosopher, translator and playwright (died 1579)[7]
- December 21 – Thomas Naogeorgus, German Protestant reformer and Latin-language playwright (died 1563)[8]
- Unknown dates
- Marin Držić, Croatian dramatist, author and poet (died 1567)
- Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (died 1575)[9]
- Primož Trubar, Slovene Protestant reformer, pioneer of Slovenian written language (died 1586)
Deaths[edit]
- February 4 – Conrad Celtes, German and Latin-language poet (born 1459)[10]
- May 13 – Martial d'Auvergne, French poet (born 1420)[11]
- June 6 – Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet, murdered (born 1471)[12]
- August 27 – Hieronymus Münzer, co-author of the Nuremberg Chronicle (born 1437/47)[13]
References[edit]
- ^ "Best April day in history". Scotsman. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ Hook, David (2015). The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. University of Wales Press. p. 282. ISBN 978-1-78316-243-7.
- ^ Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). Leonardo da Vinci on Painting. University of California Press. p. 116.
- ^ The Harp and the Constitution: Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin. BRILL. 2015. p. 177. ISBN 9789004306387.
- ^ Giuseppe Coluccia (2001). L'esperienza teatrale di Ludovico Ariosto (in Italian). Manni Editori. p. 22. ISBN 978-88-8176-215-6.
- ^ Karl Friedrich Ledderhose (1855). The life of Philip Melanchthon, tr. by G.F. Krotel. p. 325.
- ^ Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1822). Res literariæ: bibliographical and critical, for Oct. 1820. p. 147.
- ^ Union académique internationale (1960). Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum, Volume 9. CUA Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8132-1729-1.
- ^ Anne J. Cruz; Rosilie Hernández (2011). Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 72. ISBN 978-1-4094-2714-8.
- ^ Christoph Reske (2000). Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 165. ISBN 978-3-447-04296-3.
- ^ English cyclopaedia (1872). The English Cyclopædia. p. 129.
- ^ Hugh James Rose (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary. T. Fellowes. p. 138.
- ^ Christoph Reske (2000). Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg (in German). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 164. ISBN 978-3-447-04296-3.