Literature year 1512
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Overview of the literature years
Further events
| Literature year 1512 | |
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 Glarean receives the poet's crown as poeta laureatus . |
 Thomas Murner writes the satire conjuring up fools . |
Events
Poeta laureatus
- The Eidgenosse Glarean receives because of a Lobgedichtes to Emperor Maximilian I of this the poet crown as poet laureate .
prose
- around 1512: The first surviving edition of Till Eulenspiegel is published.
Versepen
- Thomas Murner published in two German verses written, the fool's literature attributable satires : the Narrenbeschwerung and Schelmenzunfft . In the conjuration of fools , Murner refers directly to Sebastian Brant's ship of fools and sometimes also uses his illustrations.
- The medieval verse epic Orendel is published for the first time in Augsburg. A prose version will also appear at the same time . The work is supposed to stimulate the pilgrimage to the Holy Rock in Trier .
Poetry
- Pietro Aretino published his first sonnets in Venice .
Science and religion
- The Portuguese pharmacist Damiano de Odemira publishes his bilingual chess textbook Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de le partite in Rome . The work will spread throughout Europe over the next few decades .
- The French theologian and humanist Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples publishes a text-critical edition of the Paulus letters.
Born
- March 5 : Gerhard Mercator , Flemish-German mathematician, geographer, philosopher, theologian and cartographer († 1594 )
- June 24th : Balthasar Brusch , Eger bookbinder, bookseller and chronicler († 1589 )
- Martin Cromer , Polish historian, theologian and bishop († 1589 )
- Antonio Lafreri , Franco-Italian printer, map dealer and publisher († 1577 )
- Francesco Sansovino , Italian scholar, poet and author († 1586 )
- Pontus de Tyard , French poet and theologian († 1605 )
- around 1512: Ortensio Lando , Italian humanist and writer († 1553 )
Died
- August 2 : Alessandro Achillini , Italian philosopher and doctor (* 1463 )
- Dietrich Gresemund , German humanist author (* 1477 )
- around 1512: Hieronymus Brunschwig , German doctor and author (* around 1450 )
See also
Web links
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