1504 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1504.

Events

• Unknown dates
  • Walloon poet Jean Lemaire de Belges joins the court of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy.
  • Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.

New books

Prose

• Pomponius Gauricus – De sculptura et pictura antiquorum^[1]
• Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (romance)

Drama

• Beunans Meriasek (in Cornish)

Poetry

Main article: 1504 in poetry

• Pierre Gringore – Les Abus du monde
• Thomas More – Fortune Verses (c. 1504)^[2]

Births

• October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligrapher and poet (died 1551)
• November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi ("Cinthio"), Italian novelist and poet (died 1573)
• c. December – Nicholas Udall, English schoolmaster playwright (died 1556)^[3]
• unknown date – Ranabai, Hindu mystical poet (died 1570)

Deaths

• August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman, author and recipient of some of the Paston Letters (born 1444)^[4]
• September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (born 1467)^[5]
• unknown dates
  • Petrus Haedus (Pietro Cavretto), Italian priest and writer (born 1427)^[6]
  • Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author (born c. 1450)