1503 in literature

This article presents a list of literary events and publications during 1503.

Events

Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ is re-published in an English translation.
An edition of Euripides' Tragoediae is published.
Approximate year – Hours of James IV of Scotland produced, probably in Ghent.

March 22 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Florentine author (died 1584)
June 28 – Giovanni della Casa, Florentine Latin-language writer on etiquette and poet (died 1556)
November 17 – Bronzino, born Agnolo di Cosimo, Florentine Mannerist painter and poet (died 1572)
December 14 (or 21) – Nostradamus, French apothecary and astrologer (died 1566)
December 20 – Cosimo Bartoli, Italian diplomat, mathematician, philologist, humanist and translator (died 1572)
Unknown dates
- Robert Estienne, French printer (died 1559)
- Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Spanish poet, novelist, historian and diplomat, governor of Granada (died 1575).
Probable year
- Nicholas Bourbon, French court preceptor and poet (died 1550)
- Benedetto Varchi, Florentine Latin-language humanist historian and poet (died 1565)
- Thomas Wyatt, English lyrical poet and diplomat (died 1542)

February 14 – Annamacharya, Indian Hindu saint and Telugu poet (born 1408)
September 17 – Iovianus Pontanus, Italian Latin-language humanist and poet (born 1426)
Probable year – Antonio Bonfini, Italian-born humanist historian and poet (born 1434)

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