1519 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1519.

Events

• The chivalric romance Libro del muy esforzado e invencible caballero Don Claribalte (Book of the most vigorous and invincible knight Don Claribalte), the first literary work by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, is published in Valencia (Spain) by Juan Viñao. In the foreword (dedicated to Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria), Oviedo relates that the work has been conceived and written in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (the Caribbean island of Hispaniola), where he has been working since 1514, allowing it to claim to be the first literary work created in the New World. ^[1]

New books

Prose

• Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel and Jorge Reinel (illustrated by António de Holanda) – "Miller Atlas"
• William Horman – Vulgaria
• John Rastell – The Abbreviacion of Statutis

Drama

• John Rastell – The Four Elements (A new Interlude and a Mery of the Elements, approximate date)

Poetry

Main article: 1519 in poetry

• Bergadis – Apokopos (first book in Modern Greek) ^{[2] [3]}
• Thomas Murner – Geuchmat ("Meadow of Fools") ^[4]
• Santikirti – Santinatha Purana
• Timanna – Parijatapahanannamu ^[5]

Births

• February 19 – Froben Christoph of Zimmern, Swabian noble and chronicler (died 1566)
• March 17 – Thoinot Arbeau, born Jehan Tabourot, French priest and writer (died 1596)
• May 27 – Girolamo Mei, Italian humanist historian (died 1594)
• Unknown date – Gutierre de Cetina, Spanish poet and soldier (died 1554)
• 1519 or 1520 – Nicholas Grimald, English poet and translator (died 1562)

Deaths

• May 9 – Jodocus Trutfetter, German philosopher and theologian (born 1460) ^[6]
• June 30 – Wigand Wirt, German theologian (born 1460) ^[7]
• September 10 – John Colet, English churchman and Biblical scholar, best known for his sermons (born 1467)
• December 25 – Rudolph von Langen, German Catholic humanist and poet (born c.1438) ^[8]
• Unknown dates
  • Anna Bülow, Swedish abbess, writer and translator
  • William Grocyn, English scholar, friend and executor of Erasmus ^[9]
  • Ferceirtne Ó Curnín, Irish poet
  • Domhnall Glas Ó Curnín, Irish poet

References

1. de Amezúa, Agustín G. (1956). Introduction to facsimile reprint of Libro de Claribalte. Madrid: Real Academia Española.
2. Maria Delaperrière (1 January 1998). Histoire littéraire de l'Europe médiane: des origines à nos jours (in French). Harmattan. p. 100. ISBN   978-2-7384-6806-2.
3. Margaret Alexiou (18 October 2018). After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor. Cornell University Press. p. 111. ISBN   978-1-5017-2049-9.
4. Thomas, Calvin (1909). A History of German Literature. New York: D. Appleton & Company. Retrieved 2009-12-14. German literature.
5. Kurian, George Thomas (2003). Timetables of World Literature. New York: Facts on File Inc. ISBN   0-8160-4197-0.
6. Jakob Franck: "Jodocus von Eisenach" (1. Art.). In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 111 and following
7. Charles George Herbermann (1913). The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church. Encyclopedia Press. p. 661.
8. John Flood (8 September 2011). Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook. Walter de Gruyter. p. 1086. ISBN   978-3-11-091274-6.
9. Dorothy Eagle; Daniel Hahn; Nicholas Robins; Meic Stephens (2008). The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 111. ISBN   978-0-19-861460-9.