1508 in literature

none thumb | right | alt=Title page of the earliest known edition of Amadís de Gaula, 1508, in the British Library. The text was written in the fifteenth century. | Title page of the earliest known edition of Amadís de Gaula, 1508, in the British Library. The text was written in the fifteenth century. 1508 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1508. Events April 4 – John Lydgate's poem The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes the first book printed in Scotland, from the Chepman and Myllar Press in Edinburgh.Best April day in history https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/best-april-day-in-history-1-1164736 Scotsman 25 April 2018 en unknown date The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (died c. 1505), is published in Castilian at Zaragoza.David Hook The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds https://books.google.com/books?id=BcAmDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT282 2015 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-243-7 282 Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh in Yiddish. Estimated date of Manuscript D of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting.Leonardo (da Vinci) Leonardo da Vinci on Painting https://books.google.com/books?id=yUojU-T05zUC&pg=PA116 1965 University of California Press 116 New books Prose Desiderius Erasmus – Adagiorum chiliades (2nd ed., Venice) Johannes Trithemius – De septem secundeisThe Harp and the Constitution: Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin 2015 BRILL 9789004306387 177 https://books.google.com/books?id=eXPsCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177 en Drama Ludovico Ariosto – La CassariaGiuseppe Coluccia L'esperienza teatrale di Ludovico Ariosto https://books.google.com/books?id=XGD0b_yM9h4C&pg=PA22 2001 Manni Editori 978-88-8176-215-6 22 it The World and the Child (possible date) Poetry 1508 in poetry William Dunbar The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, and Other Poems The Goldyn Targe Births April 3 – Jean Daurat (or Dorat), French poet and scholar, member of La Pléiade (died 1588) April 23 – Georg Sabinus, German poet, diplomat and academic (died 1560)Karl Friedrich Ledderhose The life of Philip Melanchthon, tr. by G.F. Krotel https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzcBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA325 1855 325 June 13 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist philosopher, translator and playwright (died 1579)Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges Res literariæ: bibliographical and critical, for Oct. 1820 https://books.google.com/books?id=yJAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA147 1822 147 December 21 – Thomas Naogeorgus, German Protestant reformer and Latin-language playwright (died 1563)Union académique internationale Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum, Volume 9 https://books.google.com/books?id=dsiKf4ZfKaUC&pg=PA40 1960 CUA Press 978-0-8132-1729-1 40 Unknown dates Marin Držić, Croatian dramatist, author and poet (died 1567) Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (died 1575)Anne J. Cruz Rosilie Hernández Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World https://books.google.com/books?id=FgNJKd1OdBcC&pg=PA72 2011 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-1-4094-2714-8 72 Primož Trubar, Slovene Protestant reformer, pioneer of Slovenian written language (died 1586) Deaths February 4 – Conrad Celtes, German and Latin-language poet (born 1459)Christoph Reske Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg https://books.google.com/books?id=SK_bsN3X7scC&pg=PA165 2000 Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 978-3-447-04296-3 165 May 13 – Martial d'Auvergne, French poet (born 1420)English cyclopaedia The English Cyclopædia https://books.google.com/books?id=4v4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA129 1872 129 June 6 – Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet, murdered (born 1471)Hugh James Rose A New General Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=o3HauIguws0C&pg=PA138 1857 T. Fellowes 138 August 27 – Hieronymus Münzer, co-author of the Nuremberg Chronicle (born 1437/47)Christoph Reske Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg https://books.google.com/books?id=SK_bsN3X7scC&pg=PA164 2000 Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 978-3-447-04296-3 164 de References