Literature year 1515
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Overview of the literature years
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Events
prose
- Beginning of October: The satirical dark man's letters ( Epistolae obscurorum virorum ), printed by Heinrich Gran in Haguenau , are published anonymously. They are a reaction to the dispute between Johannes Pfefferkorn and Johannes Reuchlin over the Talmud and other Jewish scriptures. The work contains 41 bogus letters, which allegedly a number of Dominicans write mainly to the scholastic Ortwin Gratius and partly ask him for advice, partly assure him of their solidarity in the matter with Reuchlin. The form and content of the letters are designed in such a way that they act as a self-exposure of those involved. As the main writer of the work that undergoes several more editions, is now considered the the Erfurt circle of humanists to Konrad Mutian belonging Johann Crotus .
- The satirical work Geuchmat by Thomas Murner has temporarily fallen victim to intra-Franciscan censorship and can only appear in 1519 . As a replacement, he publishes the satire Die Mülle von Schwyndelszheym vnd Gredt Müllerin Jarzit . The main characters of this poem are the miller, who invited a rogue society to a jarzit , his boisterous wife Gredt Müllerin , and a donkey. In addition to the criticism of the love addiction, embodied in Gret Müllerin, Murner again takes the clergy on the grain. So he lets the donkey appear in the form of a canon, a guardian , a prior and a doctor of a university.
- The first reliably dated edition of Till Eulenspiegel is published.
- Filippo Beroaldo , Prefect of the Roman Academy, commissioned Pope Leo X. to print a codex with the first five books of the Annales of Tacitus , which was discovered in 1509 in Corvey Monastery .
Poetry
- Zacharias Kallierges publishes the first Greek edition of Pindar's hymns in his newly founded printing press in Rome .
drama
- Gian Giorgio Trissino completed the tragedy Sofonisba , which was published in 1524 and premiered in 1556 .
Others
- The Chronica sive Historia de duabus civitatibus by Otto von Freising from the 12th century appears in print for the first time.
- The first German edition of Ludovico de Varthema's travelogue appears in Augsburg.
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 25 : Christoph Preuss von Springenberg , Hungarian poet and rhetorician († 1590 )
- March 28 : Teresa of Ávila , Spanish mystic and author of spiritual books († 1582 )
Ambrosius Lobwasser , 1585
- April 4 : Ambrosius Lobwasser , German humanistic writer and translator († 1585 )
- May 13 : Johannes Stigel , German poet and rhetorician († 1562 )
- October 29 : Vincenzo Borghini , Italian humanist, writer and cleric († 1580 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Robert Copland , English printer and poet († 1547 )
Born around 1515
- Melchior Acontius , German humanist and poet († 1569 )
- Roger Ascham , English educator and writer († 1568 )
Died
- February 5th , 6th or 8th : Aldus Manutius , Venetian printer and publisher (* 1449 )
- November 11th : Dietrich Coelde , German-Dutch Franciscan, popular preacher and writer (* around 1435 )
See also
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