Literature year 1497

Literature year 1497
Girolamo Savonarola organizes the "burning of vanities" in Florence .	Sebastian Brant's satire Ship of Fools appears in the Latin translation of his student Jakob Locher .

Events

Epistola contra sententiam excommunicationis

February 7th / 17. February: Girolamo Savonarola organizes a book burning in Florence with the “Purgatory of Vanities” . On May 13th, the Dominican monk and penitential preacher, who loudly denounced the grievances in the church, was given by Pope Alexander VI. excommunicated as "heretic, schismatic and despiser of the Holy See" . Savonarola responds to the excommunication with the Epistola contra sententiam excommunicationis .

Sebastian Brant's satire Ship of Fools , written in 1494, appears in the Latin translation Stultifera Navis by his pupil Jakob Locher on June 1st in Strasbourg, printed by Johannes Grüninger . This edition quickly spread across national borders and made Brant's work an international success. Locher's translation is not a literal, but rather a Latin adaptation that takes into account the expectations of the audience who knows Latin and their traditional educational background. A Middle Low German edition is printed by Hans van Ghetelen in Lübeck under the title Dat narren schyp .

A chess problem with Lucena

Luis Ramírez Lucena publishes his chess book Repetición de amores e arte de axedrez . In the work printed with incunabula , the modern rules of chess are described for the first time.

around 1497: Stephan Gardiner , English theologian, statesman, humanist and Graecist († 1555)
around 1497: Katharina Zell , German Reformation author († 1562)

May 1: Shams ad-Dīn as-Sachāwī , hadith scholar, prosopographers and historiographers in Egypt during the Mamluk period (* 1427)

Elia ben Moses Abba Delmedigo , Jewish religious philosopher and author in Crete (* 1460)

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