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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)

References