1504 in literature

Events

• Unknown dates
• *Walloon poet Jean Lemaire de Belges joins the court of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy.
• *Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.

New books

Prose

• Pomponius Gauricus – De sculptura et pictura antiquorum
• Jacopo Sannazaro – ''Arcadia''

Drama

• ''Beunans Meriasek''

Poetry

• Pierre Gringore – Les Abus du monde
• Thomas More – ''Fortune Verses''

Births

• October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligrapher and poet
• November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet
• c. December – Nicholas Udall, English schoolmaster playwright
• unknown date – Ranabai, Hindu mystical poet

Deaths

• August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman, author and recipient of some of the Paston Letters
• September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca, Italian astrologer
• unknown dates
• *Petrus Haedus, Italian priest and writer
• *Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author