title: 1504 in literature
text: # 1504 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1504.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Unknown dates
     * Walloon poet Jean Lemaire de Belges joins the court of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy.
     * Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Pomponius Gauricus – De sculptura et pictura antiquorum
  * Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (romance)
  
  ### Drama
  
  * Beunans Meriasek (in Cornish)
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Pierre Gringore – Les Abus du monde
  * Thomas More – Fortune Verses (c. 1504)
  
  ## Births
  
  * October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligrapher and poet (died 1551)
  * November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi ("Cinthio"), Italian novelist and poet (died 1573)
  * c. December – Nicholas Udall, English schoolmaster playwright (died 1556)
  * unknown date – Ranabai, Hindu mystical poet (died 1570)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman, author and recipient of some of the Paston Letters (born 1444)
  * September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (born 1467)
  * unknown dates
     * Petrus Haedus (Pietro Cavretto), Italian priest and writer (born 1427)
     * Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author (born c. 1450)
  