1500 in literature

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. ^[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

Prose

• 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

• The Wakefield Master – Second Shepherds' Play (approximate year) ^[7]

Poetry

Main article: 1500 in poetry

• 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

• 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

• 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

1. 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.
2. "John Skelton". The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
3. Minaz Jooma (1995). The Alimentary Structures of Incest: Eating and Incest in Eighteenth-century English Narrative. Michigan State University. Department of English. p. 1.
4. 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.
5. Jo Eldridge Carney (2001). Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 130. ISBN   978-0-313-30574-0.
6. Gregory Kipper (27 October 2003). Investigator's Guide to Steganography. CRC Press. p. 19. ISBN   978-1-135-48638-9.
7. Thomas J. Garbáty (1984). Medieval English Literature. D.C. Heath. p. 881. ISBN   978-0-669-03351-9.
8. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-860634-6.
9. Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: a Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge. A.J. Johnson & Son. 1879. p. 740.
10. John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Publishing Group. p. 138. ISBN   978-0-8010-6123-3.
11. 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.
12. Joaquim de Siqueira Coutinho (1964). An Outline of the History of Portuguese Culture. Saint Anthony's Press. p. 25.
13. Eleonora Zuliani (1935). "PASQUALI (o Pascale), Lodovico". Enciclopedia Italiana, Volume 26, Roma (in Italian). Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
14. Titus Lucretius Carus (1864). Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: With a translation and notes. Bell. p. 6.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Leslie Harries (ed.), Gwaith Huw Cae Llwyd ac eraill (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1953)