1505 In Poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

Great Britain

* Anonymous, ''Adam bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly'', an outlaw ballad, reprinted numerous times through the mid-17th century (a continuation, ''Young Cloudeslie'', was published in 1608 in poetry)Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004,
* Anonymous, ''Octavian'', publication year uncertain (1504–1506); written in the mid-14th century from a French version; among the many themes the work draws on are the St. Eustace legend and the "Calumniated Wife"
* Anonymous, ''Sir Torrent of Portingale'', publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th to early 15th century
* Alexander Barclay, ,Web page title
"Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603 Table of Contents"
at the Stanford University Library website, retrieved June 20, 2009

2009-07-22. published anonymously; publication year uncertain, London: "Imprinted be ... Richarde Pynson", translation from the French of Pierre Gringoire

Other

* Jean Lemaire de Belges, Belgian Waloon poet writing in French:
** ''La couronne margaritique'' (this year or 1504), on the death of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, the second husband of Archduchess Margaret of Austria, to whom the author was court poet;"Jean Lemaire de Belges" article, p 453, in France, Peter, editor, ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French'', New York: Oxford University Press,
** ''Epîtres de l'amant vert'', mock epistles presented as having been written by the pet parrot of Marguerite d'Autriche; the parrot dies from its love for the woman; ''Walloon poet published in France, where he was court poet to d'Autriche
* Pietro Bembo, ''Gli Asolani'', a dialogue on courtly love, with poems reminiscent of Boccaccio and Petrarch (see also second, revised edition 1530)

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article:
* February 4 – Mikolaj Rej (died 1569), Polish poet, politician and musician
*Also:
** Lodovico Castelvetro born about this year (died 1571), Italian literary critic
** Giovanni Pietro Astemio (died 1567), Italian, Latin-language poetWeb page title
"Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"
at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009
Archived
2009-05-27.
** Nicholas Bourbon in this year or 1503 (died 1550), French court preceptor and poet
** John Wedderburn, birth year uncertain (died 1556), Scottish religious reformer and poet
** Nicholas Udall, born this year, according to one source,Web page title
"Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603"
at Stanford University library website, retrieved September 8, 2009
Archived
2009-09-11. or in 1504, according to others (died 1556), English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
** Georg Wickram (died 1562), German poet and novelist
** Wu Cheng'en (died 1580), Chinese novelist and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article:
* July 17 – Filippo Beroaldo (born 1453), Italian writer, editor, translator, commentator and poet in Italian and Latin
* Also:
** Tito Vespasiano Strozzi died about this year (born 1424), according to at least some sources,Tucker, George Hugo
''Forms of the "medieval" in the "Renaissance": a multidisciplinary exploration of a cultural continuum''
p 175, Rookwood Press, 2000, , , retrieved May 22, 2009 1425 according to another, Italian, Latin-language poet
** Robert Wydow (born 1446), English poet, church musician, and religious figure

See also

* Poetry
* 16th century in poetry
* 16th century in literature
* French Renaissance literature
* Grands Rhétoriqueurs
* Renaissance literature
* Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes

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