1507 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1507.
Events
- King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland to Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar.
New books
Prose
- Matthias Ringmann (probably) – Cosmographiae Introductio (published to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's globe and map)
- Francesco Spinacino – Intabollatura de lauto (earliest known published scores for lute)
Poetry
- Jean Lemaire de Belges – Les Chansons de Namur[1]
- Baptista Mantuanus[2]
- Mantuan Georgius
- Obiurgatio cum exortatione ad capienda arma contra infideles ad Potentatos Christianos
- Parthenese
- Jean Marot – Le Voyage de Gênes[1]
Births
- January 25 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (died 1568)
- April 13 – Konrad Hubert, German religious reformer and hymnwriter (died 1577)
- June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and translator (died 1566)
Deaths
- July 5 – (Petrus) Crinitus (Pietro Crinito), Florentine Italian humanist scholar and Latin-language poet (born 1474)
- August 23 – Jean Molinet, French Burgundian poet, chronicler and composer (born 1435)
References
- ^ a b France, Peter (ed.). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.
- ^ Mantuanus, Baptista (1911). Mustard, Wilfred Pirt (ed.). The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. Retrieved 2009-05-17.