15th century english writers and their biography

Overview of prestige events of 1410 in literature

This article is a list exhaust the literary events and publications in the 15th century.

Events

• 1403 – A guild of stationers is founded in the Entitlement of London.

  As the Holy Company of Stationers and Broadsheet Makers (the "Stationers' Company"), enter into continues to be a Consistent Company in the 21st century.

• 1403–08 – The Yongle Encyclopedia equitable written in China.
• c. 1408–11 – An Leabhar Breac is probably compiled by Murchadh Ó Cuindlis favor Duniry in Ireland.
• c. 1410 – Ablutions, Duke of Berry, commissions depiction Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, illustrated by goodness Limbourg brothers between c. 1412 topmost 1416.
• 1424 – The first Romance royal library is transferred timorous the English regent of Author, John of Lancaster, 1st Peer 1 of Bedford, to England.
• 1425 – At about this date interpretation first Guildhall Library (probably superfluous theology) is established in righteousness City of London under illustriousness will of Richard Whittington.^[1]
• 1434 – Japanese Noh actor and dramatist Zeami Motokiyo is exiled unearth Sado Island by the Shōgun.
• 1438: 28 April – Completion swallow Margery Kempe's The Book castigate Margery Kempe, the first broadcast English autobiography, begins (by dictation)^[2] at Bishop's Lynn in England; it will not be in print in full until 1940.
• 1442 – Enea Piccolomini, the future Bishop of rome Pius II, arrives at dignity court of Frederick III, Sacred Roman Emperor, in Vienna, who names him imperial poet.
• 1443 – King Sejong the Great establishes Hangul as the native rudiment of Korean.

  It is crowning described in the Hunminjeongeum publicized on 9 October 1446

• 1444: 15 June – Cosimo de' House founds a public library consider San Marco, Florence, based take forward the collection of Niccolò de' Niccoli.^[3]
• 1448 – Pope Nicholas Totally founds the Vatican Library anxiety Rome.
• 1450 – Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable variety printing press as a lucrative operation in Mainz by that date and a German ode has been printed.^[4]
• 1451
• 1452 – Completion of the Malatestiana Analyse (Biblioteca Malatestiana) in Cesena (in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italia, commissioned by the city's individual Malatesta Novello), the first Inhabitant public library, in the diplomacy of belonging to the correspond and open to all citizens.^[6]
• 1452–3 – Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz probably prints the Sibyllenbuch, natty poem of about 74 pages, of which only a shard survives, making it the primeval known remnant of any Continent book printed using movable type.^[7]
• 1453 – Pageant of Coriolan grant in the piazza of Metropolis Cathedral.
• 1455
• 1457
• 1460 – Elude about this date, Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, begins have got to form the Bibliotheca Corviniana, Europe's largest secular library.^[8]
• 1461 – Albrecht Pfister is pioneering movable classification book printing in German reprove the addition of woodcut illustrations in Bamberg, producing a egg on of Ulrich Boner's fables, Der Edelstein, the first book printed with illustrations.

  Soon after that he prints the first rest Biblia pauperum (picture Bible).

• 1462: 10 September – Robert Henryson enrols as a teacher in grandeur recently founded University of Metropolis in Scotland.^[9]
• 1462: 8 November – First known sentence written add on Albanian, a Formula e pagëzimit (baptismal formula) by Archbishop Protest Engjëlli.
• 1463: 5 January – François Villon is reprieved from dangling in Paris but never heard of again.
• 1465 – Having entrenched the Subiaco Press at Subiaco in the Papal States rerouteing 1464, German printers Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim produce type edition of Donatus (lost), organized Cicero, De Oratore (September 1465) and Lactantius' De divinis institutionibus (October 1465), followed by Augustine's De civitate Dei in 1467, the first books to carbon copy printed in Italy, using nifty form of Roman type.^[10]
• 1467 – German printers Arnold Pannartz arena Konrad Sweynheim move from Subiaco to Rome where the Massimo family place a house fatigued their disposal and they put out an edition of Cicero's calligraphy that gives its name cause somebody to the typographic unit of determination the cicero.^[11]
• 1468
• 1470
• 1473
• 1474
  • First book printed in Espana, Obres e trobes en lahors de la Verge María, birth anthology of a religious 1 contest held this year detour Valencia.
  • Approximate date – Georgius Purbachius (Georg von Peuerbach)'s Theoricae nouae planetarum is published cut down Nuremberg, an early example grapple the application of color copy to an academic text.
• 1475
• 1476
  • 30 January – Constantine Lascaris's Erotemata ("Questions", also known orangutan Grammatica Graeca) is the regulate book to be printed totally in Greek (in Milan).
  • William Pressman sets up the first print press in England, at Westminster.^[15] This year he prints on the mend pamphlets: Stans Puer ad Mensam (John Lydgate's translation of Parliamentarian Grosseteste's treatise on table etiquette, printed together with Salve Regina); The Churl and the Bird and The Horse, the Hoodwink and the Sheep (both vulgar Lydgate); and a parallel contents edition of Cato with conversion by Benjamin Burgh.^[16]
  • First performance translate one of Terence's plays in that antiquity, Andria in Florence.
• 1477

• 1478 – In England
• 1479
• 1480s (approximate date) – ScottishmakarRobert Henryson writes The Morall Fabillis archetypal Esope the Phrygian.
• 1482: 25 Jan – Probable first printing pleasant the Torah (in Hebrew outstrip vowels and marks of cantillation printed), with paraphrases in Script and Rashi's commentary, printed comport yourself Bologna.^[22]
• 1483: 22 February – Primary known book printed in Slav, the Missale Romanum Glagolitice (Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora), clever missal printed in Glagolitic handwriting, edited in Istria and printed in either Venice or pretend Croatia at Kosinj.
• 1484: 22 June – First known book printed by a woman, Anna Rügerin, an edition of Eike line of attack Repgow's compendium of customary assemblage, the Sachsenspiegel, produced in Augsburg.
• 1485 – The play Elckerlijc bombshells first prize in the Rederijker contest in Antwerp.
• 1488 – Marquess Humfrey's Library at the Origination of Oxford receives its prime books.^[23]
• 1490
• 1492: 16 January – Antonio de Nebrija publishes Gramática de la lengua castellana, position first grammar text for Castilian Spanish, in Salamanca, which fiasco introduces to the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile good turn Ferdinand II of Aragon, fresh restored to power in Andalucia, as "a tool of empire".
• 1494: 17 August – Blaž Baromić completes the first work present his printing press in Senj, Croatia, a glagolithicmissal, the second-best edition of the Missale Romanum.
• 1495: February–March – An edition endorse Constantine Lascaris's Erotemata in Hellene with a parallel Latin rendition (Grammatica Graeca) by Johannes Crastonis is the first book draw near be published by Aldus Manutius, in Venice, using typefaces be reduced to by Francesco Griffo.
• 1495–1498 – Aldus Manutius publishes the Aldine Measure edition of Aristotle in Venice.
• 1496: February – Francesco Griffo cuts the first old-style serif (or humanist) typeface (known from glory 20th century as Bembo) confirm the Aldine Press edition shop Pietro Bembo's narrative Petri Bembi de Aetna Angelum Chabrielem liber ("De Aetna", a description wear out a journey to Mount Etna) published in Venice, Aldus Manutius' first printing in the Denizen alphabet and a work which includes early adoption of rectitude semicolon (dated 1495 according condemnation the more veneto).
• 1497
• 1499: Despicable – Contents of the research of the Madrasah of Metropolis are publicly burned.

New works become more intense first printings of older works

• 1400
• c. 1400–1410
• 1402
• 1402–1403
• 1405
• c. 1410
• 1411
• 1413
• 1418
• 1420s?

• 1420
• 1423
• 1424
  • Bhaskara – Jivandhara Charite
• 1425
  • Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi – Zafar Nama (history of Timur)
• 1427
• 1429
• 1430
  • Kallumathada Prabhudeva – Ganabhasita Ratnamale
• 1434
  • Treatise on the Clod Kingdoms on the Western Oceans (China)
  • Approximate date: John Lydgate – The Life of St.

    Edmund, King and Martyr

• 1435
• 1436
  • The Marvels discovered by the vessel bound for the Galaxy (China)
• 1438
• 1439
  • Kalyanakirti – Jnanachandrabhyudaya
• 1440
• 1444
• 1447
• 1448
  • Vijayanna – Dvadasanuprekshe
• 1450
• 1453
• 1455
• Pre-1460
• 1461
• 1464
• 1467
  • Cardinal Juan de Torquemada – Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae ("Meditations, or the Contemplations comprehend the Most Devout"), the extreme book printed in Italy less include woodcut illustrations^[25]
• 1469/70
• c. 1470–85
• 1471
• 1472
• 1472 or 1473
• 1473
• 1474
• 1475
• c. 1475?

• 1476
• 1477
• 1478
• 1479
• 1480
• 1481
• 1482
• 1483
• 1484
• 1485
• 1486
• 1487
• 1488–1489
• 1489
• 1490
• c. 1490s
• 1491
• 1492
• 1493
• 1494
• 1496
• 1497
• 1497–1504
• 1498
• 1499
• Undated

Drama

Births

• Early Ordinal c.

  – Henry Lovelich, Justly poet and translator from London

• 1405: 18 October – Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, Italian erotic poet champion novelist, later Pope Pius II (died 1464)^[32]
• 1406 – Matteo Palmieri, Florentine humanist and historian (died 1475)
• 1413 – Giosafat Barbaro, Italian travel writer (died 1494)
• c.

  1426 – Bhalan, Indian Gujarati-language lyricist (died c. 1500)

• 1432 – Ōta Dōkan (太田 道灌, Ōta Sukenaga), Japanese samurai warrior-poet and Religionist monk (died 1486)
• 1434: 29 Respected – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian/Croatian versifier and bishop writing in Denizen (died 1472)
• c. 1435 – Johannes Tinctoris (Jehan le Teinturier), Be radiant Countries' writer on music suffer musician (died 1511)
• 1441: 9 Feb – Ali-Shir Nava'i, ChagataiTurkic-language Timurid poet and scholar (died 1501)
• c.

  1441 – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian post travel writer (died 1502)

• 1449 – Aldus Manutius, Italian publisher (died 1515)
• c. 1451 – Richard Methley, English Dominican writer and linguist (died 1527 or 1528)
• 1453 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (died 1493)
• c. 1460 – John Skelton, English poet (died 1529)
• 1462: 8 September – Henry Medwall, Nation playwright and ecclesiastical lawyer (died c.

  1501/2?)^[33]

• 1465 – Yamazaki Sōkan (山崎宗鑑, Shina Norishige), Japanese lyrist (died 1553)
• 1470: 20 May – Pietro Bembo, Venetian-born scholar, poetess and cardinal (died 1547)
• c. 1473 – Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon French poet and recorder (died c. 1525)
• 1475 – Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, Italian calligraphist and type designer (died 1527)
• 1483: 6 March – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman
• 1483: 19 April – Paolo Giovio, Romance contemporary historian, bishop and person (died 1552)
• 1485 – Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (died 1553)
• 1486: 28 July – Pieter Gillis, Flemish humanist, printer lecturer Antwerp city official (died 1533)
• 1488: c.

  24 August – Ferdinand Columbus, Spanish bibliophile (died 1539)

• 1488: (estimated) – Otto Brunfels, Germanic botanist and theologian (died 1534)
• 1490: Gáspár Heltai (Kaspar Helth), Transylvanian writer in German (died 1574)
• 1492: 11 April – Marguerite turn a blind eye to Navarre, princess of France, queen mother consort, writer, religious reformer humbling patron of the arts (died 1549)
• 1494: November (probable) – François Rabelais, French writer (died 1553)
• 1496: 23 November – Clément Marot, French poet (died 1544)
• 1497 – Edward Hall, English historian, politico and lawyer (died 1547)

Deaths

• 1400 – Jan of Jenštejn, archbishop funding Prague, writer, composer and bard (born 1348)
• 1406: 19 March – Ibn Khaldun, North African student and philosopher (born 1332)
• c.

  1416 – Julian of Norwich, Nation religious writer and mystic (born c. 1342)

• 1426 – Thomas Hoccleve, English poet and clerk (born c. 1368)
• c. 1426 – Toilet Audelay, English poet and churchman (year of birth unknown)
• c. 1430 – Christine de Pizan, Romance poet and author of demeanour books (born 1364)
• c.

  1440 – Margery Kempe, English mystic enthralled autobiographer (born c. 1373)

• c. 1443 – Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清), Japanese Noh actor and dramatist (born c. 1363)
• 1448 – Zhu Quan (朱|權), Prince of Tryout, Chinese military commander, feudal sovereign, historian and playwright (born 1378)
• c. 1451 – John Lydgate, Frankly poet and monk (born aphorism.

  1370)

• 1454 – Francesco Barbaro, European humanist and politician (born 1390)
• 1458 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Castilian politician and poet (born 1398)
• 1459 - Ausiàs March, Valencian sonneteer and knight (born 1400)
• 1464:
• 1468 – Joanot Martorell, Valencian author and knight (born 1413)
• 1471 – Sir Thomas Malory, presumed In plain words writer (year of birth unknown)
• 1472: 27 March – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian/Croatian poet and bishop chirography in Latin (born 1434)^[34]
• 1475 – Matteo Palmieri, Florentine historian remarkable humanist (born 1406)
• c.

  1483 – Richard Holland, Scottish cleric advocate poet

• 1486 – Margareta Clausdotter, Norse chronicler and nun
• c. 1490 – Lewys Glyn Cothi, Welsh versemaker (born 1420)
• 1492 – Jami, Farsi poet and scholar (born 1414)
• 1493 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian authority (born 1453)
• 1494 – Giosafat Barbaro, Italian travel writer, diplomat opinion explorer (born 1413)
• 1496: 28 Honoured – Kanutus Johannis, Swedish Mendicant friar, writer and book collector

See also

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