1511 in literature
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The year 1511 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.
Events
- 1510–1511 – Ein kurtzweilig Lesen von Dyl Ulenspiegel, geboren uß dem Land zu Brunßwick, wie er sein leben volbracht hat … is published by printer Hans Grüninger in Strassburg in Early New High German, the first appearance of the trickster character Till Eulenspiegel in print.
New books
- The Demaũdes Joyous (joke book published by Wynkyn de Worde in English)
- Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly (Stultitiae Laus, written 1509)
New poetry
Main article: 1511 in poetry
- Jean Lemaire de Belges – La Concorde des deux langages[1]
- John Lydgate (died c. 1451) – The Governance of Kings ("Secrets of the Old Philisoffres", translated into English from Aristotle's Secreta secretorum)[2]
- Cancionero general (anthology of Spanish poetry published by Hernando del Castillo)[3]
- 1510–1513 – The Friar and the Boy (fabliau published in English)[2]
Births
- November 15 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet writing in Latin (died 1536)
Deaths
- Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (born 1482)
References
- ↑ France, Peter (ed.). "Jean Lemaire de Belges". The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 453. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ↑ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.