1504 in literature

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

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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

• 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]
• unknown dates
  • Petrus Haedus (Pietro Cavretto), Italian priest and writer (born 1427)[5]
  • Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author (born c. 1450)

References

1. Gregory Velazco Trianosky; Noël Carroll (3 December 2012). Beauty Unlimited. Indiana University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-253-00653-0.
2. Text: Retrieved 18 January 2018. Archived 11 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
3. Dennis Poupard; Michael Lablanc; Mark Scott (2003). Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth-century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers. Gale. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-7876-6352-0.
4. Norman Davis (1999). The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling. Oxford University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-19-283640-3.
5. Giovanni Antonazzi (1985). Lorenzo Valla e la polemica sulla donazione di Costantino. Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. p. 133.