1502 in literature
# 1502 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1502.

## Events

* June – England's Poet Laureate John Skelton is believed to have been tried, in a case brought by the London Prior of St Bartholomew's, and subsequently imprisoned, possibly at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey.
* unknown dates
   * Aldine Press editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus' Histories (in Greek and Italian parallel text) and Sophocles are published in Venice.
   * The English poet Stephen Hawes is appointed Groom of the Chamber to King Henry VII of England.

## New books

### Prose

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

### 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)
* probable – Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)

## Deaths

* February – Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426)
* March 14 – 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)
   * Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (born 1468)
   * Sōgi (宗祇), Japanese Zen monk and renga poet (born 1421)
* probable
   * 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)
