1505 in literature
# 1505 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1505.

## Events

* Unknown date
   * Thomas Murner is "crowned" Poet Laureate to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
   * Giovanni Battista Ramusio becomes secretary to Alvise (or Aloisio) Mocenigo, member of the patrician Mocenigo family.

## New books

### Prose

* Georges Chastellain (died 1475) – Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps
* Stephen Hawes – The Temple of Glass
* Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500) – Crater Hermetis
* Pierre Le Baud (died September 29) – Cronique des roys et princes de Bretaigne armoricane (completed)
* Primer of Claude of France

### Poetry

* Pietro Bembo – Gli Asolani
* Jean Lemaire de Belges – Epîtres de l'amant vert

## Births

* February 4 – Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician (died 1569)
* Unknown date – Margaret Roper, English writer and translator, daughter of Thomas More (died 1544)
* Approximate year
   * Nicholas Bourbon, French court preceptor and poet (died 1550)
   * Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic (died 1571)
   * John Wedderburn, Scottish religious reformer and poet (died 1556)
   * Hugh Weston, English churchman and academic (died 1556)
   * Georg Wickram, German poet and novelist (died before 1562)
   * Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died c. 1580)

## Deaths

* August 30 – Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Italian Latin-language poet (born c. 1424)
* September 29 – Pierre Le Baud, French historian (born c.1450)
* October 4 (buried) – Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician and cleric (born 1446)
* Unknown date
   * Adam of Fulda, German musical writer (born c. 1445)
   * Al-Suyuti, Egyptian religious scholar, juristic expert, teacher and Islamic theologian (born c. 1445)
   * Veit Arnpeck, Bavarian historian (born 1440)
