1507 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1507.

## Events[edit]

* August 26 – Following the death of Jean Molinet (see Deaths section), Jean Lemaire de Belges is appointed historiographer to the court of Charles, Duke of Burgundy.[1]
* September 15 – King James IV grants Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar a patent to found the first printing press in Scotland.[2]

## New books[edit]

### Prose[edit]

* Matthias Ringmann (probably) – Cosmographiae Introductio (to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's globe and map)[3]
* Francesco Spinacino – Intabollatura de lauto (earliest known published scores for lute)

### Poetry[edit]

Main article: 1507 in poetry

* Jean Lemaire de Belges – Les Chansons de Namur[4]
* Baptista Mantuanus[5]
* Mantuan Georgius
* Obiurgatio cum exortatione ad capienda arma contra infideles ad Potentatos Christianos (Charge and exhortation over the arms of infidels against Christian potentates)
* Parthenese
* Jean Marot – Le Voyage de Gênes[4]

## Births[edit]

* January 25 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (died 1568)
* April 13 – Konrad Hubert, German religious reformer and hymn writer (died 1577)
* June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and translator (died 1566)

## Deaths[edit]

* 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)[6]
* November 6 – Pietro Casola, travel writer (born 1427)[7]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Michael F. O. Jenkins (1980). Artful Eloquence: Jean Lemaire de Belges and the Rhetorical Tradition. U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages. p. 57\. ISBN 978-0-8078-9217-6.
2. ^ The Register Of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 15 September 1507. Scottish National Archives.
3. ^ Chet Van Duzer (9 October 2019). Martin Waldseemüller's 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends. Springer Nature. p. 3\. ISBN 978-3-030-22703-6.
4. ^ a b France, Peter (ed.). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.
5. ^ Mantuanus, Baptista (1911). Mustard, Wilfred Pirt (ed.). The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. p. 52. Retrieved 2009-05-17. "Eclogues of Mantuan"
6. ^ David Fallows (2009). Josquin. Brepols. p. 303\. ISBN 978-2-503-53065-9.
7. ^ Pietro Casola; Mary Margaret Newett (1907). Canon Pietro Casola's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Year 1494. Manchester University Press. p. 13.