1502 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English 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.

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 – Amores
• 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)