Literature year 1501

Literature year 1501
At the University of Vienna is poet College founded.

Events

Judita

April 22nd : The Croatian poet Marko Marulić completes the epic Judita , which establishes his reputation as the "father of Croatian literature ". The work is published for the first time in 1521 .
In his Liber notarum, Johannes Burckard describes the chestnut banquet allegedly organized by Cesare Borgia on October 31 in the Apostolic Palace in Rome . The orgy is also described in the anti-pope Savelli letter of November 15 , in which Cesare's sister Lucrezia and his father, Pope Alexander VI. should have been present.

The Collegium poetarum et mathematicorum , a study group for the promotion of humanistic education, is founded by the Roman-German King Maximilian I on the initiative of the poet Konrad Celtis at the University of Vienna as an alternative to studying at the traditional artist faculty . It has four chairs: for poetics, rhetoric and two for mathematical and scientific subjects.
Jakob Wimpfeling wrote the historical work Germania .
In the printing house of Aldus Manutius , italics are used for the first time for an edition of Virgil's works . Both Manutius and his type cutter Francesco Griffo later claim the invention for themselves.

Book printing in Venice : Ottaviano dei Petrucci invents sheet music printing with movable type. Around 1501 he published his first printed sheet music under the title Harmonice Musices Odhecaton , scores of canzones by well-known composers in polyphonic settings.

January 17 : Leonhart Fuchs , German botanist, physician and specialist author († 1566 )
January 24 : Jakob Milich , German mathematician, physician and specialist author († 1559 )

February 24 : Sixtus Birck , German playwright († 1554 )
March 12 : Pietro Andrea Mattioli , Italian doctor, botanist and specialist author († 1577 )

August 1 : Veit Winsheim , German rhetorician, philologist, medic and Graecist († 1570 )
August 6 : Hieronymus Frobenius , Swiss printer and publisher († 1563 )

Jo Sik , Korean philosopher and writer († 1572 )
Francesco Stancaro , Italian humanist, physician, Hebraist, Unitarian theologian and reformer († 1574 )
Yi Hwang , Korean philosopher and writer († 1570 )

Statue of Mir ʿAli Schir Nawāʾi in the Osh City Park

January 3 : Mir ʿAli Schir Nawāʾi , Central Asian politician, builder, mystic and poet at the court of the Timurids (* 1441 )
March 28 : Martin Prenninger , called Martin Uranius , German humanist and legal scholar (* around 1450 )

August 10 : Heinrich Quentell , Cologne printer
to the August 15 : Constantine Lascaris , Byzantine humanist, classical scholar and author of a Greek grammar (* 1433 / 1434 )
December 30th : Konrad Stolle , Erfurt chronicler (* 1436 )

Jan Ostroróg , voivode of Posen, political writer and advisor to the Polish kings (* 1436 )

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