This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1502.
Events June – England's Poet Laureate John Skelton is believed to have been tried, in a case brought by the London Prior of St Bartholomew's, and subsequently imprisoned, possibly at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey. unknown dates Aldine Press editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus' Histories (in Greek and Italian parallel text) and Sophocles are published in Venice. The English poet Stephen Hawes is appointed Groom of the Chamber to King Henry VII of England. Cantino planisphere (map of Portuguese discoveries)
New books Prose Niccolò Machiavelli – Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro) Shin Maha Thilawuntha – Yazawin Kyaw
Drama Gil Vicente – Monólogo do Vaqueiro ("Monologue of the Cowboy")
Poetry
Pietro Bembo – Terzerime (published by Aldus Manutius) Conradus Celtis – Quatuor libri amorum secundum quatuor latera germanie Baptista Mantuanus – Sylvae Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (pirated edition)
Births Guillaume Bigot, French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin (died 1550) probable – Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)
Deaths February – Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426) March 14 – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian and travel writer (born c. 1441) unknown dates Jalaladdin Davani, Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet (born 1426) Henry Medwall, English dramatist (born c. 1462) Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (born 1468) Sōgi (宗祇), Japanese Zen monk and renga poet (born 1421) probable Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (born c. 1460) Bonino Mombrizio, Milanese lawyer, bureaucrat, philologist, humanist, editor of ancient writings and poet in Latin (born 1424)
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