1508 in literature

Overview of the events of 1508 in literature

Overview of the events of 1508 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1508.

## Events[edit]

* 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.[1]
* 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.[2]
* Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh in Yiddish.
* Estimated date of Manuscript D of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting.[3]

## New books[edit]

### Prose[edit]

* Desiderius Erasmus – Adagiorum chiliades (2nd ed., Venice)
* Johannes Trithemius – De septem secundeis[4]

### Drama[edit]

* Ludovico Ariosto – La Cassaria[5]
* The World and the Child (possible date)

### Poetry[edit]

Main article: 1508 in poetry

* William Dunbar
* The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, and Other Poems
* The Goldyn Targe

## Births[edit]

* 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)[6]
* June 13 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist philosopher, translator and playwright (died 1579)[7]
* December 21 – Thomas Naogeorgus, German Protestant reformer and Latin-language playwright (died 1563)[8]
* Unknown dates
* Marin Držić, Croatian dramatist, author and poet (died 1567)
* Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (died 1575)[9]
* Primož Trubar, Slovene Protestant reformer, pioneer of Slovenian written language (died 1586)

## Deaths[edit]

* February 4 – Conrad Celtes, German and Latin-language poet (born 1459)[10]
* May 13 – Martial d'Auvergne, French poet (born 1420)[11]
* June 6 – Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet, murdered (born 1471)[12]
* August 27 – Hieronymus Münzer, co-author of the Nuremberg Chronicle (born 1437/47)[13]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Best April day in history". Scotsman. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
2. ^ Hook, David (2015). The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. University of Wales Press. p. 282\. ISBN 978-1-78316-243-7.
3. ^ Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). Leonardo da Vinci on Painting. University of California Press. p. 116.
4. ^ The Harp and the Constitution: Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin. BRILL. 2015. p. 177\. ISBN 9789004306387.
5. ^ Giuseppe Coluccia (2001). L'esperienza teatrale di Ludovico Ariosto (in Italian). Manni Editori. p. 22\. ISBN 978-88-8176-215-6.
6. ^ Karl Friedrich Ledderhose (1855). The life of Philip Melanchthon, tr. by G.F. Krotel. p. 325.
7. ^ Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1822). Res literariæ: bibliographical and critical, for Oct. 1820. p. 147.
8. ^ Union académique internationale (1960). Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum, Volume 9. CUA Press. p. 40\. ISBN 978-0-8132-1729-1.
9. ^ Anne J. Cruz; Rosilie Hernández (2011). Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 72\. ISBN 978-1-4094-2714-8.
10. ^ Christoph Reske (2000). Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 165\. ISBN 978-3-447-04296-3.
11. ^ English cyclopaedia (1872). The English Cyclopædia. p. 129.
12. ^ Hugh James Rose (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary. T. Fellowes. p. 138.
13. ^ Christoph Reske (2000). Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg (in German). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 164\. ISBN 978-3-447-04296-3.