1508 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1508.

Events

• April 4 – John Lydgate's poem The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes the first book printed in Scotland, from the Chepman and Myllar Press in Edinburgh.^[1]
• unknown date
  • The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (died c. 1505), is published in Castilian at Zaragoza.^[2]
  • Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh in Yiddish.
  • Estimated date of Manuscript D of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting.^[3]

New books

Prose

• Desiderius Erasmus – Adagiorum chiliades (2nd ed., Venice)
• Johannes Trithemius – De septem secundeis^[4]

Drama

• Ludovico Ariosto – La Cassaria^[5]
• The World and the Child (possible date)

Poetry

Main article: 1508 in poetry

• William Dunbar
  • The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, and Other Poems
  • The Goldyn Targe

Births

• April 3 – Jean Daurat (or Dorat), French poet and scholar, member of La Pléiade (died 1588)
• April 23 – Georg Sabinus, German poet, diplomat and academic (died 1560)^[6]
• June 13 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist philosopher, translator and playwright (died 1579)^[7]
• December 21 – Thomas Naogeorgus, German Protestant reformer and Latin-language playwright (died 1563)^[8]
• Unknown dates
  • Marin Držić, Croatian dramatist, author and poet (died 1567)
  • Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (died 1575)^[9]
  • Primož Trubar, Slovene Protestant reformer, pioneer of Slovenian written language (died 1586)

Deaths

• February 4 – Conrad Celtes, German and Latin-language poet (born 1459)^[10]
• May 13 – Martial d'Auvergne, French poet (born 1420)^[11]
• June 6 – Ercole Strozzi, Italian poet, murdered (born 1471)^[12]
• August 27 – Hieronymus Münzer, co-author of the Nuremberg Chronicle (born 1437/47)^[13]

References

1. "Best April day in history". Scotsman. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
2. Hook, David (2015). The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. University of Wales Press. p. 282. ISBN 978-1-78316-243-7.
3. Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). Leonardo da Vinci on Painting. University of California Press. p. 116.
4. The Harp and the Constitution: Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin. BRILL. 2015. p. 177. ISBN 9789004306387.
5. Giuseppe Coluccia (2001). L'esperienza teatrale di Ludovico Ariosto (in Italian). Manni Editori. p. 22. ISBN 978-88-8176-215-6.
6. Karl Friedrich Ledderhose (1855). The life of Philip Melanchthon, tr. by G.F. Krotel. p. 325.
7. Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1822). Res literariæ: bibliographical and critical, for Oct. 1820. p. 147.
8. Union académique internationale (1960). Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum, Volume 9. CUA Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8132-1729-1.
9. Anne J. Cruz; Rosilie Hernández (2011). Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 72. ISBN 978-1-4094-2714-8.
10. Christoph Reske (2000). Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 165. ISBN 978-3-447-04296-3.
11. English cyclopaedia (1872). The English Cyclopædia. p. 129.
12. Hugh James Rose (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary. T. Fellowes. p. 138.
13. Christoph Reske (2000). Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg (in German). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 164. ISBN 978-3-447-04296-3.