title: 1502 in literature
text: # 1502 in literature
  
  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)
  