1511 in literature

Bremen Cathedral Museum: Missale secundum ritum Bremense, printed by Renatus Beck, Strasbourg 1511. The missal is the oldest book in the collection of today's cathedral library.

Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1511.

Events

• probable – Ein kurtzweilig Lesen von Dyl Ulenspiegel, geboren uß dem Land zu Brunßwick, wie er sein Leben volbracht hat... is published by the printer Hans Grüninger in Strasbourg in Early New High German, either this year or in 1510.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> This is the first appearance of the trickster Till Eulenspiegel in print.

New books

Prose

• The Demaũdes Joyous (joke book published by Wynkyn de Worde in English)
• Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly (Stultitiae Laus), written 1509

Poetry

• Jean Lemaire de Belges – La Concorde des deux langages<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• John Lydgate (died c. 1451) – The Governance of Kings ("Secrets of the Old Philisoffres", translated from Aristotle's Secreta secretorum)<ref name=cocel>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Cancionero general (anthology of Spanish poetry published by Hernando del Castillo)<ref name=npepap>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

• November 15 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet writing in Latin (died 1536)

Deaths

• unknown dates
  • Matthias Ringmann, German cartographer and humanist poet (born 1482)
  • Johannes Tinctoris (Jean de Vaerwere), Low Countries' composer, poet and writer on music, author of Diffinitorium musices, the first dictionary of musical terms (born c. 1435)