Literature year 1508
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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 Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo writes the novel Amadís de Gaula . |
Events
prose
- The Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo wrote the chivalric novel Amadís de Gaula .
- The Low German satire Bruder Rausch appears for the first time in High German.
- Baldassare Castiglione starts working on Il Libro del Cortegiano .
drama
Titian : Ludovico Ariosto
- March 5 : The comedy in five acts La cassaria of Ludovico Ariosto has its world premiere at the court of Ferrara. It is the first major comedy in Italian and influences later Italian comedies such as: B. Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena's La Calandria ( 1513 ) or Pietro Aretino's first version of La Cortigiana ( 1525 ) are decisive.
Non-fiction
- September 12 to October: Leonardo da Vinci writes Manuscript F of his Paris manuscripts . The main subjects of the manuscript are water, optics, geology and astronomy , like the nature of moonlight .
- Poeta laureatus Heinrich Bebel writes Proverbia Germanica and begins working on the Libri facetiarum iucundissimi .
- The Venetian publisher Aldus Manutius publishes the first printed edition of the Adagia by Erasmus von Rotterdam .
- After a diplomatic mission at the court of Emperor Maximilian I , Niccolò Machiavelli wrote the report Rapporto delle Cose d'Alemagna .
Religious works
- Johannes Pfefferkorn , who converted to Christianity, wrote the Judenspiegel , an anti-Judaist inflammatory pamphlet.
Born
- April 3 : Jean Dorat , French man of letters and scholar († 1588 )
- June 9 : Primož Trubar , Protestant preacher; is considered the founder of Slovenian literature († 1586 )
- June 13 : Alessandro Piccolomini , Italian astronomer, philosopher and poet († 1578 )
- December 21 : Thomas Naogeorg , German theologian and writer († 1563 )
- Lodovico Dolce , Italian humanist, poet, writer, translator and art theorist († 1568 )
- Petar Zoranić , Croatian writer († around 1569 )
Died
- February 4 : Conrad Celtis , German poet and humanist (* 1459 )
- May 13 : Martial d'Auvergne , French writer (* 1430 )
- Isaak Abrabanel , Jewish Bible commentator and philosopher, politician and financier in the service of the kings of Portugal, Spain and Naples and the Doges of Venice (* 1437 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Books 1508 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
