Literature year 1509
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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 of Ulrich Tengler first appears in print. |
Events
prose
- Balthasar Sprenger's sea trip , one of the first German travel reports, is printed.
- Fool's literature : while staying with his friend Thomas More in England, Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the praises of folly .
- The Volksbuch Fortunatus appears in print in Augsburg.
drama
- February 6 : I Suppositi , the second comedy of Ludovico Ariosto , has its world premiere in Italian at the court of Ferrara.
Non-fiction
- The Laienspiegel of Ulrich Tengler , one of the most important law books of modern times, the first time appear in print.
- Niccolò Machiavelli supplements his report Rapporto delle Cose d'Alemagna on the political state of Germany with a portrait of Emperor Maximilian I.
- Balthasar Sprenger's travel diary is now in print, describing his voyage to India under the Portuguese viceroy Francisco de Almeida in 1505 . The work is illustrated with woodcuts by the Augsburg draftsman Hans Burgkmair .
- around 1509: Nicolaus Copernicus writes the Commentariolus .
Religious works
- The French theologian and humanist Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples publishes a text-critical edition of the Psalms .
Born
- July 25 : Gabriele Simeoni , Italian poet and translator († 1575 )
- August 3 : Étienne Dolet , French printer and translator († 1546 )
- Antoine Froment Swiss preacher, chronicler and memoir writer († 1581 )
- Dietrich Westhoff , Dortmund clerk and chronicler († 1551 )
Died
- Chen Zhou , Chinese painter and poet (* 1427 )
- Ludovico Odasio , Italian humanist, letter writer and translator (* 1455 )
- Giorgio Sisgoreo , Venetian-Croatian humanist, translator and poet (* 1440 )
- around 1509: Petermann Etterlin , Swiss chronicler (* 1430/40)
See also
Web links
Commons : Books 1509 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
