1502 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1502.
Events
- June – England's Poet Laureate John Skelton is believed to have been tried, in a case brought by the London Prior of St Bartholomew's, and subsequently imprisoned, possibly at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey.[1]
- unknown dates
- Aldine Press editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus' Histories (in Greek and Italian parallel text) and Sophocles are published in Venice.
- The English poet Stephen Hawes is appointed Groom of the Chamber to King Henry VII of England.[2]
New books
Prose
- Niccolò Machiavelli – Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro)[3]
- Shin Maha Thilawuntha – Yazawin Kyaw[4]
Drama
- Gil Vicente – Monólogo do Vaqueiro ("Monologue of the Cowboy")[5]
Poetry
- Pietro Bembo – Terzerime (published by Aldus Manutius)
- Conradus Celtis – Amores
- Baptista Mantuanus – Sylvae
- Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (pirated edition)
Births
- Guillaume Bigot, French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin (died 1550)
- probable – Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)[6]
Deaths
- February – Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426)
- March 14 – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian and travel writer (born c. 1441)[7]
- unknown dates
- Jalaladdin Davani, Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet (born 1426)
- Henry Medwall, English dramatist (born c. 1462)[8]
- Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (born 1468)[9]
- Sōgi (宗祇), Japanese Zen monk and renga poet (born 1421)[10]
- probable
- Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (born c. 1460)[11]
- Bonino Mombrizio, Milanese lawyer, bureaucrat, philologist, humanist, editor of ancient writings and poet in Latin (born 1424)
References
- ^ William Nelson (1 January 1964). John Skelton, laureate. Russell & Russell. p. 77.
- ^ Arthur F. Kinney; David W. Swain; Eugene D. Hill; William A. Long (17 November 2000). Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 332. ISBN 978-1-136-74530-0.
- ^ Niccolò Machiavelli (22 January 2017). Delphi Collected Works of Niccolò Machiavelli (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-78656-065-0.
- ^ Patrick Arthur Pranke (2004). The "Treatise on the Lineage of Elders" (Vaṃsadīpanī): Monastic Reform and the Writing of Buddhist History in Eighteenth-century Burma. University of Michigan. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-496-69378-8.
- ^ Constantin C. Stathatos (1 September 2018). A Gil Vicente Bibliography (2005–2015). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-61146-277-7.
- ^ Philip Ward (1978). The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature. Clarendon Press. p. 572. ISBN 978-0-19-866114-6.
- ^ David Thomas; John A. Chesworth (17 December 2014). Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History: Volume 6. Western Europe (1500-1600). BRILL. p. 605. ISBN 978-90-04-28111-0.
- ^ Ian Ousby (23 February 1996). The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-521-43627-4.
- ^ Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1841). A Summer in Western France. Henry Colburn, Publisher. p. 291.
- ^ Paul S. Atkins (28 February 2017). Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet. University of Hawaii Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-8248-5870-4.
- ^ John T. Koch (2012). The Celts: History, Life, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 400. ISBN 978-1-59884-964-6.