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1502 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1502. Events *June – England's Poet Laureate John Skelton is believed to have been tried, in a case brought by the London Prior of St Bartholomew's, and subsequently imprisoned, possibly at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey. *''unknown dates'' **Aldine Press editions of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', Herodotus' ''Histories'' (in Greek and Italian parallel text) and Sophocles are published in Venice. **The English poet Stephen Hawes is appointed Groom of the Chamber to King Henry VII of England. New books Prose *Niccolò Machiavelli – '' Discourse about the Provision of Money'' (''Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro'') *Shin Maha Thilawuntha – '' Yazawin Kyaw'' Drama * Gil Vicente – '' Monólogo do Vaqueiro'' ("Monologue of the Cowboy") Poetry *Pietro Bembo – ''Terzerime'' (published by Aldus Manutius) *Conradus Celtis – ''Amores'' *Baptista Mantuanus – ''Sylvae'' * Jacopo Sannazar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Mahasilavamsa
Shin Mahāsīlavaṃsa ( my, ရှင်မဟာ သီလဝံသ, variously transcribed Shin Maha Silavamsa, Shin Maha Thilawuntha or Rhaṅʻ Mahāsīlavaṃsa) was a Theravadan Bhikkhu, Buddhist monk and a classical Burmese poet who lived in 15th century Ava Kingdom (now modern-day Myanmar). He is famous for his ''pyo'' poetry and he is considered one of the greatest poets of pre-colonial Burma, in particular his masterpieces, Paramitawkhan Pyo, ''Paramidawkhan Pyo'' () and ''Sodaungkhan Pyo'' (), which are considered ideal models of the medieval literary style. While the primary focus of Mahāsīlavaṃsa's compositions was Dharma, dhamma (Buddhist teachings), he also composed the earliest extant Burmese chronicles, Burmese chronicle, ''Yazawingyaw''. His contemporary literati rival was Shin Raṭṭhasāra. Personal life Mahāsīlavaṃsa was born Maung Nyo in Myolulin village (north of Taungdwingyi on a Friday in 1453, to U Kyi and Daw Dwe. He studied Buddhist scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier De La Marche
Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502) was a courtier, soldier, chronicler and poet in the last decades of the independent Duchy of Burgundy. He was close to Charles the Bold, and after his death held the important position of maître d'hotel to his daughter Mary of Burgundy, and her husband, and was sent on a mission as ambassador to France. He saw at close hand the dispute over Flanders between the kingdom of France and the dynasty of the Habsburgs after Charles' death. The area then held a central place in the Empire over which Charles V and his successors wanted hegemony Hegemony (, , ) is the political, economic, and military predominance of one State (polity), state over other states. In Ancient Greece (8th BC – AD 6th ), hegemony denoted the politico-military dominance of the ''hegemon'' city-state over oth .... His best-known work is his memoirs, which were published in 1562. References External links * * 1425 births 1502 deaths Duchy of Burgundy 15th-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1565 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1565. Events *March 1 – Poet and missionary José de Anchieta co-founds Rio de Janeiro. *October – Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara. *''unknown dates'' **Philip Neri founds the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome. **Approximate time of composition of the Bannatyne Manuscript. New books Prose *Giovanni Battista Giraldi – ''Hecatommithi'' *Pierre Pithou – ' * Camillo Porzio – ''La Congiura dei baroni'' * John Stow – ''Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles'' *Bernardino Telesio – ''De natura juxta propria principia'' (''On the Nature of Things according to their Own Principles'') * Joseph Karo – ''Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law)'' Drama *Jean-Antoine de Baïf – ''L'Eunuque'' Picture * Richard Breton – '' Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel)'' Poetry *''See 1565 in poetry'' Births * September 28 – Alessandro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedetto Varchi
Benedetto Varchi (; 1502/15031565) was an Italian humanist, historian, and poet. Biography Born in Florence to a family that had originated at Montevarchi, he frequented the neoplatonic academy that Bernardo Rucellai organized in his garden, the Orti Oricellari; there, in spite of the fact that Rucellai was married to the elder sister of Lorenzo de' Medici, republican ideals circulated, in the context of revived classical culture, that culminated in a plot in 1513 to subvert Medici rule in Florence. At Pisa, Varchi studied to become a notary. With his return to Florence, he fought in the defense of the temporarily revived Republic of Florence, during the siege by the Mediceans and imperialists in 1530, and was exiled after the surrender of the city; he spent time at Padua (1537), where he was a protégé of the émigré Piero Strozzi and at Bologna (1540). In 1536 he took part in Strozzi's unsuccessful expedition against Medicean rule, but seven years later Varchi was called b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1550 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1550. Events *June – Robert Estienne leaves Paris for Geneva, where he sets up a printing press. *July 17 – King Edward VI of England gives Humphrey Powell a grant to start printing in Ireland. *''unknown dates'' **The first book in Slovene, ''Catechismus'', is written by Protestant reformer Primož Trubar and printed in Schwäbisch Hall, Holy Roman Empire, followed by his ''Abecedarium''. **Nostradamus' first almanac is printed. **The Chinese ''shenmo'' fantasy novel ''Fengshen Yanyi'' is first published in book form. New books Prose *Leandro Alberti – ''Istoria di Bologna'' *Martin Bucer – ''De regno Christi'' *Thomas Cranmer – '' Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ'' *Doddayya – ''Chandraprabha Purana'' * Louis Maigret – ''Traité de la Grammaire française'' (the first grammatical description of French) *Ramamatya – ''Svaramel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Bigot
Guillaume Bigot (2 June 1502 - c. 1550) was a writer, doctor, humanist, and poet in French and Latin. His ''Christianae philosophiae Praeludium'' (''Prelude to Christian Philosophy'') was published in Toulouse in 1549. Its four books are devoted to the physiology of the human body, and to different aspects of the soul. It has a long preface __NOTOC__ A preface () or proem () is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a '' foreword'' and precedes an author's preface. The preface often closes ..., addressed to Cardinal Jean du Bellay, in which Bigot defends himself against his detractors. References 1502 births 1550s deaths 16th-century French poets Year of death uncertain French male poets {{France-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacopo Sannazaro
Jacopo Sannazaro (; 28 July 1458 – 6 August 1530) was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples. He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic '' Arcadia'', a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of Arcadia, representing an idyllic land, in European literature. Sannazaro's elegant style was the inspiration for much courtly literature of the 16th century, including Sir Philip Sidney's ''Arcadia''. Biography He was born in 1458 at Naples of a noble family of the Lomellina, that claimed to derive its name from a seat in Lombard territory, at San Nazaro near Pavia. His father died ''ca'' 1462, during the boyhood of Jacopo, who was brought up at Nocera Inferiore and at San Cipriano Piacentino (hosted at the home of Family Sabato, located in Via Santilli) whose rural atmosphere colored his poetry. In 1483–85 he campaigned twice with Alfonso agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baptista Mantuanus
Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus ( it, Battista Mantovano, English: Battista the Mantuan or simply Mantuan; also known as Johannes Baptista Spagnolo; 17 April 1447 – 22 March 1516) was an Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet. Biography Spagnoli was born of a Spanish family that had settled in Mantua, the northern Italian city that gave him his most commonly used English name. He was the eldest son of Peter Spagnoli, a Spanish nobleman at the court of Mantua.Zimmerman, Benedict. "Blessed Baptista Mantuanus." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 24 December 2018 He studied there under the humanists Giorgio Merula and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conradus Celtis
Conrad Celtes (german: Konrad Celtes; la, Conradus Celtis (Protucius); 1 February 1459 – 4 February 1508) was a Germans, German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet of the German Renaissance born in Franconia (nowadays part of Bavaria). He led the theatrical performances at the Viennese court and reformed the syllabi. Celtis is considered by many to be the greatest of German humanists and thus dubbed "the Archhumanist" (''Erzhumanist''). He is also praised as "the greatest lyric genius and certainly the greatest organizer and popularizer of German Humanism". Life Born at Wipfeld, near Schweinfurt (present-day Lower Franconia) under his original name Konrad Bickel or Pyckell (modern spelling Pickel), Celtes left home to avoid being set to his father's trade of vintner, and pursued his studies at the University of Cologne (1477–1479; B.A., 1479) and at the University of Heidelberg (M.A., 1485). While at Heidelberg, he received patronage and instruction from Johann von Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldus Manutius
Aldus Pius Manutius (; it, Aldo Pio Manuzio; 6 February 1515) was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press. Manutius devoted the later part of his life to publishing and disseminating rare texts. His interest in and preservation of Greek manuscripts mark him as an innovative publisher of his age dedicated to the editions he produced. His ''enchiridia'', small portable books, revolutionized personal reading and are the predecessor of the modern paperback. Manutius wanted to produce Greek texts for his readers because he believed that works by Aristotle or Aristophanes in their original Greek form were pure and unadulterated by translation. Before Manutius, publishers rarely printed volumes in Greek, mainly due to the complexity of providing a standardized Greek typeface. Manutius published rare manuscripts in their original Greek and Latin forms. He commissioned the creation of typefaces in Greek and Latin resembling the humanist handwriting of his time; type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Bembo
Pietro Bembo, ( la, Petrus Bembus; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was an Italian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Renaissance ( 15th–16th c.), Pietro Bembo greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language for poetry and prose, which, by later codification into a standard language, became the modern Italian language. In the 16th century, Bembo's poetry, essays and books proved basic to reviving interest in the literary works of Petrarch. In the field of music, Bembo's literary writing techniques helped composers develop the techniques of musical composition that made the madrigal the most important secular music of 16th-century Italy. Life Pietro Bembo was born on 20 May 1470 to an aristocratic Venetian family. His father Bernardo Bembo (1433–1519) was a diplomat and statesman and a cultured man who cared for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
