1505 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1505.

Events

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- Thomas Murner is "crowned" Poet Laureate to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.<ref name="Flood2006">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Giovanni Battista Ramusio becomes secretary to Alvise (or Aloisio) Mocenigo, member of the patrician Mocenigo family.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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Stephen Hawes – The Temple of Glass
Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500) – Crater Hermetis
Pierre Le Baud (died September 29) – Cronique des roys et princes de Bretaigne armoricane (completed)
Primer of Claude of France

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February 4 – Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician (died 1569)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Unknown date – Margaret Roper, English writer and translator, daughter of Thomas More (died 1544)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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- Nicholas Bourbon, French court preceptor and poet (died 1550)
- Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic (died 1571)
- John Wedderburn, Scottish religious reformer and poet (died 1556)
- Hugh Weston, English churchman and academic (died 1556)
- Georg Wickram, German poet and novelist (died before 1562)
- Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died c. 1580)

August 30 – Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Italian Latin-language poet (born c. 1424)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
September 29 – Pierre Le Baud, French historian (born c.1450)<ref>"Pierre Le Baud", in Alphonse-Victor Angot, Ferdinand Gaugain, Dictionnaire historique, topographique et biographique de la Mayenne, Goupil, 1900-1910, vol. IV, p. 537.</ref>
October 4 (buried) – Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician and cleric (born 1446)
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- Adam of Fulda, German musical writer (born c. 1445)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Al-Suyuti, Egyptian religious scholar, juristic expert, teacher and Islamic theologian (born c. 1445)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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