Literature year 1505

Literature year 1505
The Balthasar Behem Code defines the privileges and statutes of the city of Krakow and its guilds .

Events

March: Francisco de Almeida is appointed Viceroy of Portuguese India by King Manuel I of Portugal and sets off there in the same year with 22 ships on the route discovered by Vasco da Gama . The German Balthasar Sprenger is on one of these ships , who describes this trip to India in his travel diary, which he later published under the title Sea Voyage .

Patientia : Thomas Murner's coat of arms and motto as poeta laureatus

The Italian humanist Ludovico Ariosto begins work on his main work, the verse epic Orlando furioso ( Der raging Roland ).
Hieronymus Emser dedicates his moral poem Eyn deutsche Satyra vnd straffe des Eebruchs to the Duchess Barbara of Saxony .

Image from the Balthasar Behem Codex

The Balthasar Behem Code defines the privileges and statutes of the city of Krakow and its guilds .
The Nihil Novi constitution becomes one of the most important foundations of the Polish aristocratic republic .

Thomas Murner receives the poet's crown from Maximilian I. as poeta laureatus .

Monks of the Benedictine monastery Sponheim near Bad Kreuznach set a part of the monastery library collected by the local abbot Johannes Trithemius on fire after tensions within the convent had developed. Trithemius leaves the monastery in the same year.

1500 /1505: The Strasbourg puzzle book first appears.
around 1505: The primer of Claude of France is created. The future French Queen Claude de France was around six years old at this point.

February 5 : Aegidius Tschudi , first Swiss historian and Glarus politician († 1572 )

Thomas Kantzow , German chronicler and historian († 1542 )
Margaret Roper , English translator and author, daughter of Sir Thomas More († 1544 )

around 1505: Jörg Wickram : German early New High German writer, goldsmith and painter († 1562 )

January 28 : Giovanni Garzoni , Italian humanist, rhetorician and teacher (* 1419 )
October 21 : Paul Scriptoris , German Franciscan and theologian (* around 1460)

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