Literature year 1502
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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.jpg) The diplomat Alberto Cantino secretly sends the so-called Cantino Planisphere from Portugal to the Duke of Ferrara .
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Events
- February 13 : The Spanish Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas , later the most important critic and chronicler of the Conquista , travels to the West Indies in today's Caribbean for the first time to settle in Hispaniola .
- Amerigo Vespucci sends the travelogue Mundus Novus to the Florentine nobleman Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de 'Medici . In it he describes his third trip to South America, which lasted from May 1501 to September 1502.
- November 19 : The diplomat Alberto Cantino secretly sends the so-called Cantino Planisphere from Portugal to Ercole I. d'Este , Duke of Ferrara . The planisphere is a world map that contains the latest cartographic findings from the last few years. It contains the earliest directly dated map representation of America , but not yet given that title.
- The Hof Landbuch is the first property register of the Hof office as part of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach .
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 2 : Damião de Góis , Portuguese diplomat and historian († 1574 )
- June 2 : Guillaume Bigot , French poet, philosopher and doctor († around 1550 )
- July 26th : Christian Egenolff , German printer († 1555 )
- December 6 : Nikolaus Gentzkow , German lawyer and chronicler, Mayor of Lüneburg († 1576 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Narcissus Renner , Augsburg illuminator († 1536 )
- Johannes Stomius , German musician, educator, humanist, Latin poet († 1562 )
- Benedetto Varchi , Florentine poet and historian († 1565 )
- Mordechai Zemach , Prague Jewish printer († 1591 )
Born around 1502
- Johannes Kessler , German Reformed theologian and chronicler († 1574 )
- Jorge Reinel , Portuguese cartographer († around 1572 )
Died
- after January 17th: Johann Koelhoff the Younger , German printer and publisher of the incunable period
- January: Johannes Mauburnus , Flemish Augustinian canon, theologian and devotional writer (* around 1460 )
- around the 14 March : Felix Fabri , German Dominican and writer (* 1438 / 39 )
- July 15 : Vincenz Lang , German humanist and poet
- September 1 : Iio Sōgi , Japanese Buddhist monk and Renga poet (* 1421 )
- November 13 : Annius von Viterbo , Italian Dominican and forger of historical documents (* around 1432 )
- Diogo Gomes , Portuguese explorer and author (* 1420 )
- Olivier de la Marche , Burgundian writer and general mint master of Geldern (* around 1425 )
- Werner Rolevinck , Carthusian monk and writer from Cologne (* 1425 )
- Octavien de Saint-Gelais , French cleric, poet and translator (* 1468 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Books 1502 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
