1517 in literature
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Events from the year 1517 in literature.
Events
[edit]- August 6 – Belarusian printer Francysk Skaryna in Prague begins publishing The Psalter, a Bible translation into the Ruthenian language.[1]
- unknown dates
- John of Hauville's Architrenius (c. 1184), a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books, is first printed by Jodocus Badius in Paris.[2]
- Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino and (at about this date) the comedy Andria, adapted from Terence.[3]
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- Martin Luther – Ninety-five Theses (in Latin: Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum)[4]
Drama
[edit]- Gil Vicente – A Trilogia das Barcas; part 1, Auto da Barca do Inferno[5][6]
Poetry
[edit]- Teofilo Folengo (as "Merlin Cocaio") – Opus Maccaronicum, including "Baldo" (satiric verses blending Latin and Italian dialects in hexameters)[7]
- John Skelton – The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng[7][8]
Births
[edit]- June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (died 1585)[9]
- July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet and mathematician (died 1582)[10]
- unknown date – Robert Crowley, English printer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman (died 1588)
- probable – Henry Howard, English nobleman and poet (died 1547)[11]
Deaths
[edit]- June 19 – Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician, second person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping (born c.1447)[12]
- August – Andrea Ammonio, Italian, Latin-language poet (sweating sickness; born 1478)[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ilya Lemeškin. The Prague Bible of 1488 and The Ruthenian Bible of Francysk Skaryna. Localization of the Printing House | Laboratory of Francysk Skaryna Studies". Skaryna. 2018-01-10. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
- ^ "Review of Architrenius by Johannes de Hauvilla, translation by Walter Weatherbee". The Review of English Studies. 48 (189). Oxford University Press: 79. 1997. Archived from the original on 2018-12-11. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ Mew, Joseph (1882). "Machiavelli's 'Golden Ass'," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCLII, pp. 104–115.
- ^ Brecht, Martin (1985) [1981]. Sein Weg zur Reformation 1483–1521 [Martin Luther: His Road to Reformation 1483–1521] (in German). Translated by James L. Schaff. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress. pp. 190–192. ISBN 978-0-8006-2813-0. OCLC 985533561.
- ^ Carlos Ferrer Plaza; Joelma Santana Siqueira (1 December 2015). Escrever, editar, publicar e ler: Colóquio internacional de literatura Íbero-americana. CILIBAM. p. 110. ISBN 978-85-8179-088-6.
- ^ Constantine Christopher Stathatos (2001). A Gil Vicente Bibliography, 1995-2000. Edition Reichenberger. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-935004-31-2.
- ^ a b Kurian, George Thomas (2003). Timetables of World Literature. New York: Facts on File Inc. ISBN 0-8160-4197-0.
- ^ Trager, James (1979). The People's Chronology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0-03-017811-5.
- ^ Florkin, Marcel (2008). Dodoens (Dodonaeus), Rembert. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Walter William Rouse Ball (1893). A Short Account of the History of Mathematics. Macmillan. p. 230.
- ^ Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (17 November 2013). Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. pp. 166–. ISBN 978-1-909496-43-9.
- ^ Italian Journal. Italian Academy Foundation. 1989. p. 34.
- ^ "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2009-05-14.