1505 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1505.
Events
- Unknown date
- *Thomas Murner is "crowned" Poet Laureate to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
- *Giovanni Battista Ramusio becomes secretary to Alvise Mocenigo, member of the patrician Mocenigo family.
New books
Prose
- Georges Chastellain – Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps
- Stephen Hawes – The Temple of Glass
- Lodovico Lazzarelli – Crater Hermetis
- Pierre Le Baud – Cronique des roys et princes de Bretaigne armoricane
- ''Primer of Claude of France''
Poetry
- Pietro Bembo – Gli Asolani
- Jean Lemaire de Belges – ''Epîtres de l'amant vert''
Births
- February 4 – Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician
- Unknown date – Margaret Roper, English writer and translator, daughter of Thomas More
- Approximate year
- *Nicholas Bourbon, French court preceptor and poet
- *Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic
- *John Wedderburn, Scottish religious reformer and poet
- *Hugh Weston, English churchman and academic
- *Georg Wickram, German poet and novelist
- *Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet
Deaths
- August 30 – Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Italian Latin-language poet
- September 29 – Pierre Le Baud, French historian
- October 4 – Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician and cleric
- Unknown date
- *Adam of Fulda, German musical writer
- *Al-Suyuti, Egyptian religious scholar, juristic expert, teacher and Islamic theologian
- *Veit Arnpeck, Bavarian historian