Literature year 1499
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Libraries
The University Library of Tübingen is mentioned for the first time in the sources, so 1499 is considered to be its founding date. Nicolaus Matz donates 117 books to his hometown, which form the basis of the Michelstädter Nicolaus Matz Library .
New releases
prose
- Aldus Manutius prints the allegorical novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in Venice . The author is a Francesco Colonna whose identity is controversial.
Poetry
- The Venetian printer and publisher Aldus Manutius dedicates a collective edition of Greek epistles to the Epicurean Antonio Urceo for use in teaching at the University of Bologna. This also includes works by Theophylactus Simokates , which are later translated into Latin by Nicolaus Copernicus .
drama
- La Celestina , a tragic comedy by Fernando de Rojas , appears anonymously under the name Comedia de Calisto y Melibea .
Non-fiction
- August 14: Eberhardus Stiger de Amersfordia and Johannes Wagner: Commentaria in libros De caelo et mundo Aristotelis .
- 23 August: Johann Koelhoff the Younger publishes the Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen (Cologne Chronicle), a chronicle in Low German on the history of the city of Cologne from the creation of the world to 1499.
- Polydor Virgil publishes the first three volumes of De inventoribus rerum , a compendium on the invention of all things , in Venice . The five following volumes were printed in Basel in 1521 .
Dictionaries
- July 8th: The Greek-Italian humanist Marcus Musurus publishes the first printed edition of the 12th century Greek dictionary Etymologicon magnum in the printing works of Nikolaos Vlastos and Zacharias Kallierges in Venice . He is also putting together a Greek grammar.
- November 5th: The Catholicon appears as the first dictionary of the Breton and French languages . The incunable is printed in Tréguier by Jehan Calvez.
Translations
- August 26th: Florio and Bianceffora , a German translation of the novel Il Filocolo by Boccaccio , appears in the Hochfeder office in Metz.
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 10: Thomas Platter the Elder , Swiss writer († 1582)
- December 8: Sebald Heyden , German cantor, headmaster and spiritual poet († 1561)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Bernardino de Sahagún , Spanish missionary and ethnologist, author of the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España , an important historical source on the culture of the Aztecs
- Thomas Blarer , lawyer and poet of hymns († 567)
- Robert Estienne , French printer, publisher and lexicographer, († 1599)
- Sebastian Franck , German writer and mystic († 1542)
- Claude Garamond , French typographer and publisher († 1561)
- Michael Lotter , Magdeburg printer, in whose workshop numerous writings by the reformers were printed († after 1599).
- Domingo de Santo Tomás , Dominican, Spanish missionary and author of a book on the Quechua language , († 1570)
- Piero Vettori , Italian humanist and philosopher, editor of the writings of ancient authors ( Cicero , Terenz , Sallust , Aristoteles , Euripides ) († 1585)
Died
- October 1: Marsilio Ficino , Italian humanist, philosopher and translator (* 1433)
- Laura Cereta , Italian scholar, writer and suffragette (* 1469)
See also
Web links
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