1501 in literature

none 1501 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1501. Events Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's Aeneid. Manutius also publishes an edition of Petrarch's Le cose volgari and first adopts his dolphin and anchor device. The first volume of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, the first collection of polyphonic music printed from movable type, is published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice. New books Prose Desiderius Erasmus – Handbook of a Christian Knight (Enchiridion militis Christiani) Margery Kempe – The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous) Nilakantha Somayaji – Tantrasamgraha Drama Conradus Celtis – Ludus Diannae Poetry 1501 in poetry Gavin Douglas – The Palice of Honour (approximate date of composition) Marko Marulić – Judita (in Croatian) Births February 24 – Sixt Birck, German humanist dramatist and scholar (died 1554) unknown dates Bonaventure des Périers, French author and poet (suicide 1544) Maurice Scève, French poet (died c. 1564)Jo Eldridge Carney Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=4TBFjimrHtQC&pg=PA317 2001 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30574-0 317 Basilio Zanchi, Italian humanist Latin-language poet, scholar and librarian (died 1588) (born c. 1435)Lynn Thorndike A History of Magic and Experimental Science: Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries https://books.google.com/books?id=a9vWAAAAMAAJ 1934 Columbia University Press 701 probable – Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish soldier and poet (died 1536)Hayward Keniston Garcilaso de la Vega: A Critical Study of His Life and Works https://books.google.com/books?id=Kp5KAAAAMAAJ 1922 Hispanic society of America 5 Deaths January 3 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, Timurid dynasty philosopher and Chagatai language poet (born 1441) August (probable) – Constantine Lascaris, Greek scholar and grammarian (born 1434)Henry Duff Traill John Kendrick Bangs Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=ubM4AQAAMAAJ 1898 Harper and Brothers 643 September 26 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (born 1461) References