1502 in literature

This article presents a list of literary events and publications during 1502.

Events

• Aldine Press editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus' Histories (in Greek and Italian parallel text) and Sophocles published in Venice.
• English poet Stephen Hawes is appointed Groom of the Chamber to Henry VII of England.
• English Poet Laureate John Skelton is imprisoned, possibly at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey.

New books

Prose

• Niccolò Machiavelli – Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro)
• Shin Maha Thilawuntha – Yazawin Kyaw (Celebrated Chronicle)

Drama

• Gil Vicente – Monólogo do Vaqueiro ("Monologue of the Cowboy")

Poetry

• Pietro Bembo – Terzerime (published by Aldus Manutius)
• Conradus Celtis – Amores
• Baptista Mantuanus – Sylvae
• Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (pirated edition)

Births

• Guillaume Bigot, French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin (died 1550)
• Approximate year – Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)

Deaths

• February – Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426)
• March – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian and travel writer (born c. 1441)
• Unknown dates
  • Jalaladdin Davani, Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet (born 1426)
  • Henry Medwall, English dramatist (born c. 1462)
  • Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (born c. 1460?)
  • Bonino Mombrizio, Milanese lawyer, bureaucrat, philologist, humanist, editor of ancient writings and poet in Latin (born 1424)
  • Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (born 1468)
  • Sōgi (宗祇), Japanese Zen monk and renga poet (born 1421)

References