title: 1505 in literature
text: # 1505 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1505.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Unknown date
     * Thomas Murner is "crowned" Poet Laureate to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
     * Giovanni Battista Ramusio becomes secretary to Alvise (or Aloisio) Mocenigo, member of the patrician Mocenigo family.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Georges Chastellain (died 1475) – Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps
  * Stephen Hawes – The Temple of Glass
  * Lodovico Lazzarelli (died 1500) – Crater Hermetis
  * Pierre Le Baud (died September 29) – Cronique des roys et princes de Bretaigne armoricane (completed)
  * Primer of Claude of France
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Pietro Bembo – Gli Asolani
  * Jean Lemaire de Belges – Epîtres de l'amant vert
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 4 – Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician (died 1569)
  * Unknown date – Margaret Roper, English writer and translator, daughter of Thomas More (died 1544)
  * Approximate year
     * Nicholas Bourbon, French court preceptor and poet (died 1550)
     * Lodovico Castelvetro, Italian literary critic (died 1571)
     * John Wedderburn, Scottish religious reformer and poet (died 1556)
     * Hugh Weston, English churchman and academic (died 1556)
     * Georg Wickram, German poet and novelist (died before 1562)
     * Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet (died c. 1580)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * August 30 – Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, Italian Latin-language poet (born c. 1424)
  * September 29 – Pierre Le Baud, French historian (born c.1450)
  * October 4 (buried) – Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician and cleric (born 1446)
  * Unknown date
     * Adam of Fulda, German musical writer (born c. 1445)
     * Al-Suyuti, Egyptian religious scholar, juristic expert, teacher and Islamic theologian (born c. 1445)
     * Veit Arnpeck, Bavarian historian (born 1440)
  