1504 in literature
# 1504 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1504.

## Events

* Unknown dates
   * Walloon poet Jean Lemaire de Belges joins the court of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy.
   * Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.

## New books

### Prose

* Pomponius Gauricus – De sculptura et pictura antiquorum
* Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (romance)

### Drama

* Beunans Meriasek (in Cornish)

### Poetry

* Pierre Gringore – Les Abus du monde
* Thomas More – Fortune Verses (c. 1504)

## Births

* October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligrapher and poet (died 1551)
* November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi ("Cinthio"), Italian novelist and poet (died 1573)
* c. December – Nicholas Udall, English schoolmaster playwright (died 1556)
* unknown date – Ranabai, Hindu mystical poet (died 1570)

## Deaths

* August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman, author and recipient of some of the Paston Letters (born 1444)
* September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (born 1467)
* unknown dates
   * Petrus Haedus (Pietro Cavretto), Italian priest and writer (born 1427)
   * Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author (born c. 1450)
