1506 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1506.
Events
- unknown date – Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto begins writing Orlando Furioso.
New books
Poetry
- Publio Fausto Andrelini – Eclogues
- William Dunbar –
- Stephen Hawes – The Passtyme of Pleasure
- Niccolò Machiavelli – ''The First Decade ''
Births
- February 1 – George Buchanan, Scottish humanist historian, scholar and poet
- August 12 – Franciscus Sonnius, Dutch counter-Reformation theologian
- October – Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer
- December 8 – Veit Dietrich, German theologian, writer and reformer
- Unknown dates
- *Abderrahman El Majdoub, North African poet, Sufi and mystic
- *Michael Helding, Roman Catholic bishop, scholar, writer and humanist
- probable
- *Richard Grafton, English chronicler and King's Printer
- *Hwang Jini, Korean woman kisaeng and poet
Deaths
- February 16 – Jakub of Gostynin, Polish philosopher
- May 2 – Johannes von Soest, German composer, theorist and poet
- unknown date – Mihri Hatun, Ottoman Anatolian female poet