1504 in literature

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This article presents a list of literary events and publications during 1504.

Events

• 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

• 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)

Births

• October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligrapher and poet (died 1551)
• November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi ("Cinthio"), Italian novelist and poet (died 1573)
• December (approximate) – Nicholas Udall, English schoolmaster playwright (died 1556)

Deaths

• August 28 - John Paston, English gentleman, author of some of the Paston Letters (born 1444)
• Unknown date – Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author (born c. 1450)