1511 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1511.
Events
- probable – Ein kurtzweilig Lesen von Dyl Ulenspiegel, geboren uß dem Land zu Brunßwick, wie er sein Leben volbracht hat... is published by the printer Hans Grüninger in Strasbourg in Early New High German, either this year or in 1510. This is the first appearance of the trickster Till Eulenspiegel in print.
New books
Prose
- The Demaũdes Joyous
- Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly , written 1509
Poetry
- Jean Lemaire de Belges – La Concorde des deux langages
- John Lydgate – The Governance of Kings
- ''Cancionero general''
Births
- November 15 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet writing in Latin
Deaths
- unknown dates
- *Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet
- *Johannes Tinctoris, Low Countries' composer, poet and writer on music, author of Diffinitorium musices, the first dictionary of musical terms