Literature year 1494
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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 the Lübeck Bible is completed. |
Events
prose
Sebastian Brant's moral satire Das Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam is printed for the first time by Johann Bergmann von Olpe . This work, which drafts a typology of over 100 fools on a ship heading for Narragonia and thus holds up a critical mirror to the upside-down world through an entertaining description of its vices, will be the most successful German-language book before the Reformation. The Narrenschyff is immediately praised in the highest tones by contemporaries, especially by the early humanists of the Upper Rhine.
Non-fiction
Jörg Amann , city doctor in Ravensburg , wrote a little plague book . In the little book, Amann describes the symptoms of the plague , preventive measures and therapy options.
religion
- November 19 : The printing of the Lübeck Bible is completed. It is considered to be the most important vernacular Bible among the pre-Lutheran German Bibles .
Others
- Aldus Manutius founds the Aldina printing company in Venice .
Born
- November 5 : Hans Sachs , Nuremberg shoemaker, poet, master singer and playwright († 1576 )
Died
- September 29 : Angelo Poliziano , Italian humanist and poet (* 1454 )
- December 19 : Matteo Maria Boiardo , Italian poet (* 1441 )
