1501 in literature

This article presents a list of literary events and publications during 1501.

Events

• Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's Aeneid. Manutius also publishes an edition of Petrarch's Le cose volgari and first adopts his dolphin and anchor device.
• The first volume of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, the first collection of polyphonic music printed from movable type, is published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice.

New books

Births

• February 24 – Sixt Birck, German humanist dramatist and scholar (died 1554)
• Unknown dates
  • Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish soldier and poet (died 1536)
  • Bonaventure des Périers, French author and poet (suicide 1544)
  • Maurice Scève, French poet (died c. 1564)
  • Basilio Zanchi, Italian humanist Latin-language poet, scholar and librarian (died 1588)

Deaths

• January 3 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, Timurid dynasty philosopher and Chagatai language poet (born 1441)
• August 15 – Constantine Lascaris, Greek scholar and grammarian (born 1434)
• September 26 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (born 1461)
• Unknown date – Jean Michel, French dramatic poet

References