1505 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1505.

Events

• Unknown date
  • Thomas Murner is "crowned" Poet Laureate to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.^[1]
  • Giovanni Battista Ramusio becomes secretary to Alvise (or Aloisio) Mocenigo, member of the patrician Mocenigo family.^[2]

New books

Prose

• Georges Chastellain (died 1475) – Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps
• Stephen Hawes – The Temple of Glass
• Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500) – Crater Hermetis
• Pierre Le Baud (died September 29) – Cronique des roys et princes de Bretaigne armoricane (completed)
• Primer of Claude of France

Poetry

Main article: 1505 in poetry

• Pietro Bembo – Gli Asolani
• Jean Lemaire de Belges – Epîtres de l'amant vert

Births

Margaret Roper (1505-1544)

• February 4 – Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician (died 1569)^[3]
• Unknown date – Margaret Roper, English writer and translator, daughter of Thomas More (died 1544)^[4]
• Approximate year
  • Nicholas Bourbon, French court preceptor and poet (died 1550)
  • Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic (died 1571)
  • John Wedderburn, Scottish religious reformer and poet (died 1556)
  • Hugh Weston, English churchman and academic (died 1556)
  • Georg Wickram, German poet and novelist (died before 1562)
  • Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died c. 1580)

Deaths

• August 30 – Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Italian Latin-language poet (born c. 1424)^[5]
• September 29 – Pierre Le Baud, French historian (born c.1450)^[6]
• October 4 (buried) – Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician and cleric (born 1446)
• Unknown date
  • Adam of Fulda, German musical writer (born c. 1445)^[7]
  • Al-Suyuti, Egyptian religious scholar, juristic expert, teacher and Islamic theologian (born c. 1445)^[8]
  • Veit Arnpeck, Bavarian historian (born 1440)^[9]