Literature year 1503

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Title woodcut of the first edition of Margarita Philosophica

• The encyclopedia Margarita Philosophica by Gregor Reisch , created between 1489 and 1496, was first printed in Freiburg by the Strasbourg printer Johann Schott . As Universitas literarum, the work contains the entire human knowledge of the late Middle Ages . The “ Seven Liberal Arts ” are dealt with in twelve books, followed by the principles and origin of natural things, physiology, psychology and moral philosophy. For 100 years the work became the most widespread textbook of philosophy and encyclopedic knowledge for the study of Artes liberales . It is considered the oldest printed encyclopedia . Numerous new editions and pirated prints appeared from the following year.
• The Bolognese Ludovico de Varthema joins a caravan to Mecca and Medina in Damascus and later describes the holy places of Islam in his travelogue ( Itinerario ) in great detail and without bias.
• Erasmus von Rotterdam wrote the early work Enchiridion militis Christiani , a small manual with instructions on how to behave as a Christian knight .

• around 1503: The prayer book of Jacob IV is created.

Born

• June 28 : Giovanni Della Casa , Italian cleric and poet († 1556 )
• November 17 : Agnolo Bronzino , Florentine painter and poet († 1572 )

• December 14th : Nostradamus , French pharmacist, doctor, astrologer and author of prophetic poems († 1566 )
• December 20 : Cosimo Bartoli , Florentine humanist, translator, art theorist and diplomat († 1572 )

• Nicolas Bourbon the Elder , French Neo-Latin poet († 1550 )
• Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco , Spanish poet, historian and diplomat († 1575 )
• Aonio Paleario , Italian humanist, rhetorician and reformer († 1570 )
• Thomas Wyatt , English poet and diplomat († 1542 )

• 1499 or 1503: Robert Estienne , French printmaker, publisher and lexicographer († 1559 )

Died

• February 2 : Martin Kabátník , Czech traveler, writer and member of the Brothers Unity (* 1428 )
• September 17th : Giovanni Pontano , Italian poet and humanist (* 1429 )

See also

Portal: Literature  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the topic of literature

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