1514 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1514.

Front page of Christiern Pedersen's Danorum Regum heroumque Historia, Paris 1514 (see Gesta Danorum).

Events

• May 15 – The earliest printed edition of Saxo Grammaticus' 12th-century Scandinavian history Gesta Danorum, edited by Christiern Pedersen from an original found near Lund, is published as Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae by Jodocus Badius in Paris.
• unknown dates
  • Gregorio de Gregorii begins printing Kitab Salat al-Sawa'i (a Christian book of hours), the first known book printed in the Arabic alphabet using movable type, in Venice, falsely assigned to Fano.^[1]
  • Clément Marot presents his poem Judgment of Minos to Francis I of France and begins styling himself facteur de la reine ("queen's poet") to Queen Claude.^[2]

New books

Prose

• Desiderius Erasmus (attributed) – Julius Excluded from Heaven (Julius exclusus de caelis)

Poetry

Main article: 1514 in poetry

Births

• February 8 – Daniele Barbaro, Italian humanist polymath, writer and translator (died 1570)^[3]
• November 29 – Andreas Musculus, German theologian (died 1581)^[4]
• unknown date – Al-Akhdari, Arabic poet (died 1546)

Deaths

• October 7 – Bernardo Rucellai, Florentine historian (born 1448)
• November 28 - Hartmann Schedel, German humanist historian and cartographer (born 1440)
• unknown dates
  • Peter Crockaert, Flemish philosopher^[5]
  • Nicolaus Ragvaldi, Swedish monk and translator