1507 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1507.

Events

August 26 – Following the death of Jean Molinet, Jean Lemaire de Belges is appointed historiographer to the court of Charles, Duke of Burgundy.
September 15 – King James IV grants Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar a patent to found the first printing press in Scotland.

New books

Prose

Matthias Ringmann – Cosmographiae Introductio
Francesco Spinacino – ''''

Poetry

Jean Lemaire de Belges – Les Chansons de Namur
Baptista Mantuanus
*Mantuan Georgius
*Obiurgatio cum exortatione ad capienda arma contra infideles ad Potentatos Christianos
*Parthenese
Jean Marot – ''Le Voyage de Gênes''

Births

January 25 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer
April 13 – Konrad Hubert, German religious reformer and hymn writer
June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and translator

Deaths

July 5 – Crinitus, Florentine Italian humanist scholar and Latin-language poet
August 23 – Jean Molinet, French Burgundian poet, chronicler and composer
November 6 – Pietro Casola, travel writer