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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)