1505 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Anonymous, Adam bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly, an outlaw ballad, reprinted numerous times through the mid-17th century
• Anonymous, Octavian, publication year uncertain ; written in the mid-14th century from a French version; among the many themes the work draws on are the St. Eustace legend and the "Calumniated Wife"
• Anonymous, Sir Torrent of Portingale, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th to early 15th century
• Alexander Barclay,, published anonymously; publication year uncertain, London: "Imprinted be... Richarde Pynson", translation from the French of Pierre Gringoire

  Other

• Jean Lemaire de Belges, Belgian Waloon poet writing in French:
• * La couronne margaritique, on the death of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, the second husband of Archduchess Margaret of Austria, to whom the author was court poet;
• * Epîtres de l'amant vert, mock epistles presented as having been written by the pet parrot of Marguerite d'Autriche; the parrot dies from its love for the woman; Walloon poet published in France, where he was court poet to d'Autriche
• Pietro Bembo, Gli Asolani'', a dialogue on courtly love, with poems reminiscent of Boccaccio and Petrarch

  Births

• February 4 - Mikolaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician
• Also:
• * Lodovico Castelvetro born about this year, Italian literary critic
• * Giovanni Pietro Astemio, Italian, Latin-language poet
• * Nicholas Bourbon in this year or 1503 , French court preceptor and poet
• * John Wedderburn, birth year uncertain, Scottish religious reformer and poet
• * Nicholas Udall, born this year, according to one source, or in 1504, according to others, English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
• * Georg Wickram, German poet and novelist
• * Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet

  Deaths

• July 17 - Filippo Beroaldo, Italian writer, editor, translator, commentator and poet in Italian and Latin
• Also:
• * Tito Vespasiano Strozzi died about this year, according to at least some sources, 1425 according to another, Italian, Latin-language poet
• * Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician, and religious figure