1507 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1507.

Events

• King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar.

New books

Prose

• Matthias Ringmann? – Cosmographiae Introductio (published to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's globe and map)
• Francesco Spinacino – Intabollatura de lauto (earliest known published scores for lute)

Poetry

• Jean Lemaire de Belges – Les Chansons de Namur^[1]
• Baptista Mantuanus^[2]
  • Mantuan Georgius
  • Obiurgatio cum exortatione ad capienda arma contra infideles ad Potentatos Christianos
  • Parthenese
• Jean Marot – Le Voyage de Gênes^[1]

Births

• January 25 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (died 1568)
• April 13 – Konrad Hubert, German religious reformer and hymnwriter (died 1577)
• June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and translator (died 1566)

Deaths

• July 5 – (Petrus) Crinitus ("Pietro Crinito"), Florentine Italian humanist scholar and Latin-language poet (born 1474)
• August 23 – Jean Molinet, French Burgundian poet, chronicler and composer (born 1435)

References

1. France, Peter (ed.). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.
2. Mantuanus, Baptista (1911). Mustard, Wilfred Pirt, ed. The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. Retrieved 2009-05-17.