1511 in literature

Events

• probable – Ein kurtzweilig Lesen von Dyl Ulenspiegel, geboren uß dem Land zu Brunßwick, wie er sein Leben volbracht hat... is published by the printer :fr:Hans Grüninger|Hans Grüninger in Strasbourg in Early New High German, either this year or in 1510. This is the first appearance of the trickster Till Eulenspiegel in print.

  New books

Prose

• The Demaũdes Joyous
• Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly , written 1509

  Poetry

• Jean Lemaire de Belges – La Concorde des deux langages
• John Lydgate – The Governance of Kings
• Cancionero general

  Births

• November 15 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet writing in Latin

  Deaths

• unknown dates
• *Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet
• *Johannes Tinctoris, Low Countries' composer, poet and writer on music, author of Diffinitorium musices, the first dictionary of musical terms