title: 1500 in literature
text: # 1500 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1500.
  
  ## Events
  
  * December 31 – Figurae bibliae by Antonius Rampegollis is printed in Venice by Georgius Arrivabenus. This is generally accepted as the last of the end of incunables.
  * unknown date – John Skelton, tutor to Prince Henry (second son of King Henry VII of England, is referred to as "unum Britannicarum literarum lumen ac decus" in De Laudibus Britanniae, a Latin ode by Desiderius Erasmus, .
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * This is the Boke of Cokery (first known printed cookbook in English)
  * Hieronymus Brunschwygk – Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus (Simple book on the art of distillation)
  * Desiderius Erasmus – Adagia (Paris)
  * Johannes Trithemius – Steganographia (approximate year)
  
  ### Drama
  
  * The Wakefield Master – Second Shepherds' Play (approximate year)
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Beves of Hamtoun (approximate publication date, written c. 1300)
  * Geoffrey Chaucer (anonymously) – Mars and Venus (approximate date of publication)
  * Singiraja – Maha Basavaraja Charitra
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 12 – Joachim Camerarius (the Elder), German classical scholar (died 1574)
  * April 23
     * Alexander Ales, Scottish-born religious controversialist (died 1565)
     * Johann Stumpf, Swiss historical and topographical writer (died 1576)
  * December 6 – Nicolaus Mameranus, Luxembourg soldier and Latin-language historian and poet (died c. 1567)
  * unknown dates
     * Jeanne de la Font, French poet and culture patron (died 1553)
     * Charles Dumoulin, French jurist (died 1566)
  * probable
     * Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian and composer (died 1553)
     * Erasmus Alberus, German humanist, reformer and poet (died 1553)
     * Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, Greek kabbalist and poet (died 1580)
     * Francisco de Moraes, Portuguese writer (died 1572)
     * Hayâlî, Ottoman Turkish poet (died 1557)
     * Nikolaus Herman, German hymnist (died 1561)
     * Pier Angelo Manzolli (Marcello Palingenio Stellato), Neapolitan Christian humanist poet (died before 1551)
     * Ludovico Pasquali, Dalmatian Italian poet (died 1551)
     * Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist (died 1582)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * April 10 – Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Greek scholar, poet and soldier (born c. 1453; drowned)
  * June 23 – Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet, philosopher, courtier and magician (born 1447)
  * August 9 – Janus Plousiadenos, Greek Renaissance scholar and hymn-writer (born c. 1429)
  * August 10 – Serafino dell'Aquila, Petrarchan poet (born 1466)
  * October 1 – John Alcock, bishop, politician and writer (born c.1430)
  * probable – Stefano Infessura, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1435)
  * possible – Ieuan ap Huw Cae Llwyd, Welsh poet
  