1502 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1502.

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Events

• June – England's Poet Laureate John Skelton is believed to have been tried, in a case brought by the London Prior of St Bartholomew's, and subsequently imprisoned, possibly at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey.[1]
• unknown dates
  • Aldine Press editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus' Histories (in Greek and Italian parallel text) and Sophocles are published in Venice.
  • The English poet Stephen Hawes is appointed Groom of the Chamber to King Henry VII of England.[2]

New books

Prose

• Niccolò Machiavelli – Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro)
• Shin Maha Thilawuntha – Yazawin Kyaw (Celebrated Chronicle)

Drama

• Gil Vicente – Monólogo do Vaqueiro ("Monologue of the Cowboy")[3]

Poetry

Main article: 1502 in poetry

• Pietro Bembo – Terzerime (published by Aldus Manutius)
• Conradus Celtis – Amores
• Baptista Mantuanus – Sylvae
• Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (pirated edition)

Births

• Guillaume Bigot, French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin (died 1550)
• probable – Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)

Deaths

• February – Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426)
• March 14 – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian and travel writer (born c. 1441)[4]
• unknown dates
  • Jalaladdin Davani, Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet (born 1426)
  • Henry Medwall, English dramatist (born c. 1462)[5]
  • Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (born 1468)[6]
  • Sōgi (宗祇), Japanese Zen monk and renga poet (born 1421)
• probable
  • Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (born c. 1460)[7]
  • Bonino Mombrizio, Milanese lawyer, bureaucrat, philologist, humanist, editor of ancient writings and poet in Latin (born 1424)

References

1. William Nelson (1 January 1964). John Skelton, laureate. Russell & Russell. p. 77.
2. Arthur F. Kinney; David W. Swain; Eugene D. Hill; William A. Long (17 November 2000). Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 332. ISBN 978-1-136-74530-0.
3. Constantin C. Stathatos (1 September 2018). A Gil Vicente Bibliography (2005–2015). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-61146-277-7.
4. David Thomas; John A. Chesworth (17 December 2014). Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History: Volume 6. Western Europe (1500-1600). BRILL. p. 605. ISBN 978-90-04-28111-0.
5. Ian Ousby (23 February 1996). The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-521-43627-4.
6. Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1841). A Summer in Western France. Henry Colburn, Publisher. p. 291.
7. John T. Koch (2012). The Celts: History, Life, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 400. ISBN 978-1-59884-964-6.