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Events from the year 1517 in literature.
Events
- August 6 – Belarusian printer Francysk Skaryna in Prague begins publishing The Psalter, a Bible translation into the Ruthenian language.
- unknown dates
- John of Hauville's Architrenius (c. 1184), a widely read Latin poem in 4,361 hexameters in nine books, is first printed by Jodocus Badius in Paris.[1]
- Niccolò Machiavelli writes L'asino (The [Golden] Ass) and (at about this date) the comedy Andria, adapted from Terence.
New books
Prose
- Martin Luther – Ninety-five Theses (in Latin: Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum)
Drama
- Gil Vicente – A Trilogia das Barcas; part 1, Auto da Barca do Inferno[2][3]
Poetry
- Teofilo Folengo (as "Merlin Cocaio") – Opus Maccaronicum, including "Baldo" (satiric verses blending Latin and Italian dialects in hexameters)[4]
- John Skelton – The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng[4][5]
Births
- June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (died 1585)[6]
- July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet and mathematician (died 1582)[7]
- unknown date – Robert Crowley, English printer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman (died 1588)
- probable – Henry Howard, English nobleman and poet (died 1547)[8]
Deaths
- June 19 – Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician, second person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping (born c.1447)[9]
- August – Andrea Ammonio, Italian, Latin-language poet (sweating sickness; born 1478)[10]
References
- ↑ "Review of Architrenius by Johannes de Hauvilla, translation by Walter Weatherbee". The Review of English Studies. Oxford University Press. 48 (189): 79. 1997. Archived from the original on 2018-12-11. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ↑ Carlos Ferrer Plaza; Joelma Santana Siqueira (1 December 2015). Escrever, editar, publicar e ler: Colóquio internacional de literatura Íbero-americana. CILIBAM. p. 110. ISBN 978-85-8179-088-6.
- ↑ Constantine Christopher Stathatos (2001). A Gil Vicente Bibliography, 1995-2000. Edition Reichenberger. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-935004-31-2.
- 1 2 Kurian, George Thomas (2003). Timetables of World Literature. New York: Facts on File Inc. ISBN 0-8160-4197-0.
- ↑ Trager, James (1979). The People's Chronology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
- ↑ Florkin, Marcel (2008). Dodoens (Dodonaeus), Rembert. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ↑ Walter William Rouse Ball (1893). A Short Account of the History of Mathematics. Macmillan. p. 230.
- ↑ Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (17 November 2013). Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. pp. 166–. ISBN 978-1-909496-43-9.
- ↑ Italian Journal. Italian Academy Foundation. 1989. p. 34.
- ↑ "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
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