1507 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1507.

Events

• August 26 – Following the death of Jean Molinet (see Deaths section), Jean Lemaire de Belges is appointed historiographer to the court of Charles, Duke of Burgundy.
• September 15 – King James IV grants Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar a patent to found the first printing press in Scotland.

New books

Prose

• Matthias Ringmann (probably) – Cosmographiae Introductio (to accompany Martin Waldseemüller's globe and map)
• Francesco Spinacino – Intabollatura de lauto (earliest known published scores for lute)

Poetry

• Jean Lemaire de Belges – Les Chansons de Namur
• Baptista Mantuanus
  • Mantuan Georgius
  • Obiurgatio cum exortatione ad capienda arma contra infideles ad Potentatos Christianos (Charge and exhortation over the arms of infidels against Christian potentates)
  • Parthenese
• Jean Marot – Le Voyage de Gênes

Births

• January 25 – Johannes Oporinus, Swiss printer (died 1568)
• April 13 – Konrad Hubert, German religious reformer and hymn writer (died 1577)
• June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and translator (died 1566)

Deaths

• July 5 – (Petrus) Crinitus (Pietro Crinito), Florentine Italian humanist scholar and Latin-language poet (born 1474)
• August 23 – Jean Molinet, French Burgundian poet, chronicler and composer (born 1435)
• November 6 – Pietro Casola, travel writer (born 1427)

References