Literature year 1520
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Events
prose
- around 1520: The Kilwachronik , a list of the kings of the East African city of Kilwa Kisiwani , is created.
Non-fiction
In exile on his Casa Machiavelli estate , Niccolò Machiavelli completed his work The Art of War , a treatise on tactics , strategy , politics and, above all , the military .
religion
- At the beginning of June, the book From the good works of Martin Luther appears at Melchior Lotter in Wittenberg.
- Pope Leo X threatened Martin Luther in his bull threatening exsurge domine on June 15 with excommunication if he did not revoke 41 of his 95 theses within 60 days . Luther replied with the memorandum, consisting of 30 theses, on the freedom of a Christian and, after the withdrawal period had expired, on December 10th with the burning of the papal bull .
- In July the Eccius Dedolatus ( Der enteckte Eck ) appears, a mockery against Luther's opponent Johannes Eck .
- August 5th : Martin Luther publishes To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation about the improvement of the Christian class .
- In the Reformation writing On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church , Martin Luther publicly questions the seven number of the sacraments for the first time . In his opinion there are only three sacraments: Baptism , Penance and Lord's Supper , although at the end of the Scriptures he admits that there can be only two sacraments, since penance lacks a sign that is an essential part of a sacrament. With this treatise, Luther also breaks with the church of his time in the doctrine of the sacraments. As a script from the early Reformation period, it is fundamental to the evangelical doctrine of the sacraments.
- The Complutensic Polyglot is published.
Born
- August 21 : Bartholomäus Sastrow , German writer († 1603 )
- Natale Conti , Venetian scholar, historian and mythographer († 1582 )
- Madeleine Neveu , French writer and salonnière († 1587 )
- around 1520: Jean Crespin , French-Swiss lawyer, author and printer († 1572 )
- around 1520: Pernette du Guillet , French poet († 1545 )
- around 1520: Jorge de Montemayor , Portuguese singer, translator and poet († 1561 )
- around 1520: Christoffel Plantijn , French-Flemish printer and publisher († 1589 )
- around 1520: Alexander Scott , Scottish Makar / poet († around 1584 )
- around 1520: Georg Thym , German pedagogue, poet and author († 1560 )
Died
- March 16 : Martin Waldseemuller , German cartographer and author who coined the name America (* around 1472 / 1475 )
- May 30th : Claude de Seyssel , French humanist, lawyer, philologist, editor, author, bishop and theologian (* 1450 )
- May 31 : Johannes Aesticampianus , Sorbian scholar, theologian and humanist, poeta laureatur (* 1457 )
- around 1520: Hermann Bote , German customs clerk, chronicler and writer (* around 1450 )
- around 1520: William Dunbar , Scottish Makar / poet (* around 1460 )
See also
Web links
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